Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development - Softcover

Galton, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1646797302 ISBN 13: 9781646797301

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 1905

Synopsis

"The moral and intellectual wealth of a nation largely consists in the multifarious variety of the gifts of the men who compose it . . ." -Sir Francis Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1907) by Francis Galton is a landmark work in the field of anthropology. In it, Galton coined the term "eugenics," arguing for a selection system of euthanasia based on a classification of humans. To that end, this book discusses the many differences among humans that can be identified, including physical features, emotions, psychology, character, criminality, gregarious and slavish natures, intellectual differences, mental imagery, the history of twins, and race, among others. This is the 1907 edition updated by the author of the original classic first published in 1883.

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About the Author

Among his many significant accomplishments, British scientist SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822-1911) was an explorer, a geographer, a statistician, and inventor of fingerprint identification. In addition to more than 300 scientific papers, he wrote the books Hereditary Genius (1914), Finger Prints (1893), Memories of My Life (1908), and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 1905
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1646797302
• ISBN 13: 9781646797301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288