CHARACTER

Caprice and coyness of females; its cause; observations
of character at schools; varieties of likings and antipathies;
horror of snakes is by no means universal; the horror of
blood among cattle is variable.

CRIMINALS AND THE INSANE

Peculiarities of criminal character; some of them are
normal and not morbid; their inheritance as in the Jukes
family; epileptics and their nervous instability; insanity;
religious rapture; strange views of the insane on individuality;
their moody segregation; the religious discipline of
celibacy, fasting and solitude (see also 125); large field of
study among the insane and idiotic.

GREGARIOUS AND SLAVISH INSTINCTS

Most men shrink from responsibility; study of gregarious
animals: especially of the cattle of the Damaras; fore-oxen
to waggon teams; conditions of safety of herds; cow and
young calf when approached by lions; the most effective
size of herd; corresponding production of leaders; similarly
as regards barbarian tribes and their leaders; power of
tyranny vested in chiefs; political and religious persecutions;
hence human servility; but society may flourish without
servility; its corporate actions would then have statistical
constancy; nations who are guided by successive orators,
etc., must be inconstant; the romantic side of servility; free