The following Memoirs by the author have been freely made use of in the following pages:-ġ863: The First Steps towards the Domestication of Animalsġ871: Gregariousness in Cattle and in Menġ872: Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayerġ873: Relative Supplies from Town and Country Families Weldon), 1901,ĭescriptive List of Anthropometric Apparatus, etc., 1887. Life-History Album (British Medical Association), 1884,īiometrika (edited in consultation with F.G. The Reports of the British Association, the Philosophical Magazine, Journals of the Geographical Society and the Anthropological Institute, and II.), 1905 Īnd many papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Of some of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 1904 Įugenics: its Definition, Scope, and Aims (supplementary chapters to former work), 1893 Record of Family Faculties, 1884 Natural Inheritance, 1889 Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 1883 (from the Proceedings of the Royal Institution), 1879
Generic Images: with Autotype Illustrations Hereditary Genius: an Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences, 1869 Įnglish Men of Science: their Nature and Nurture, 1874 Īddress to the Anthropological Departments of the British Association Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, 1863 Vacation Tourists and Notes on Travel, 1861, 1862, 1864 The Art of Travel, or Shifts and Contrivances available in Wild Countries,įourth edition, recast and enlarged, 1867, 1872 Notes on Modern Geography (Cambridge Essays, 1855, etc.) Īrts of Campaigning: an Inaugural Lecture delivered at Aldershot, 1855 In Minerva Library of Famous Books, 1889 The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa, 1853, The Teletype: a printing Electric Telegraph, 1850 After all, the omission of these two chapters, in which I find nothing to recant, improves, as I am told, the general balance of the book. I could not reinsert these omissions now with advantage, unless considerable additions were made to the references, thus giving more appearance of personal controversy to the memoirs than is desirable. The earlier part of the latter was too much abbreviated from the original memoir in the Fortnightly Review, 1872, and gives, as I now perceive, a somewhat inexact impression of its object, which was to investigate certain views then thought orthodox, but which are growing obsolete. Two chapters are omitted, on Theocratic Intervention and on the Objective Efficacy of Prayer. The illustrations are for the most part reduced in size to suit the smaller form of the volume, the lettering of the composites is rearranged, and the coloured illustration is reproduced as closely as circumstances permit. The following small changes are made in this edition. Macmillan that they would waive all their claims to the contrary in my favour. Having received a proposal to republish the book in its present convenient and inexpensive form, I gladly accepted it, having first sought and received an obliging assurance from Messrs.
24 in first edition) which is recognised by the University of London, and has its home in University College. Moreover, it became the starting point of that recent movement in favour of National Eugenics (see note p.
Since that time the book has by no means ceased to live, for it continues to be quoted from and sought for, but is obtainable only with difficulty, and at much more than its original cost, at sales of second-hand books. So the question of a Second Edition was then entirely dropped. I shrank from the great trouble of bringing it up to date because it, or rather many of my memoirs out of which it was built up, had become starting-points for elaborate investigations both in England and in America, to which it would be difficult and very laborious to do justice in a brief compass. Macmillan, informed me that the demand for it just, but only just warranted a revised issue. ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INQUIRIES INTO HUMAN FACULTY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT***Į-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Robert Prince,Īnd the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamĪfter some years had passed subsequent to the publication of this book in 1883, its publishers, Messrs. With this eBook or online at Title: Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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