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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton
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BODILY QUALITIES

Anthropometric Committee; statistical anomalies in stature
as dependent on age; town and rural population; athletic
feats now and formerly; increase of stature of middle classes;
large number of weakly persons; some appearances of weakness
may be fallacious; a barrel and a wheel; definition
of word "eugenic."

ENERGY

It is the attribute of high races; useful stimuli to activity;
fleas, etc.; the preservation of the weakly as exercises for
pity; that of foxes for sport.

SENSITIVITY

Sensation and pain; range and grades of sensation;
idiots; men and women; the blind; reading by touch;
sailors; paucity of words to express gradation.

SEQUENCE OF TEST WEIGHTS

(See also Appendix, p. 248).--Geometric series of
weights; method of using them; the same principle is
applicable to other senses; the tests only measure the state
of faculties at time of trial; cautions in constructing the
test weights; multiplicity of the usual perceptions.

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