CHAPTER XIX 

 HUMAN FACULTY 



Measurement of mental powers Gentiles Number forms Visions of 

 sane persons Experiments on self Classification by judgment 

 Sandow Weight of cattle First and second prizes Arithmetic 

 by smell Influences of gesture, voice, etc. 



A FTER I had become satisfied of the inheritance 

 ** of all the mental qualities into which I had 

 inquired, and that heredity was a far more powerful 

 agent in human development than nurture, I wished 

 to explore the range of human faculty in various 

 directions in order to ascertain the degree to which 

 breeding might, at least theoretically, modify the 

 human race. I took the moderate and reasonable 

 standpoint that whatever quality had appeared in man 

 and in whatever intensity, it admitted of being bred 

 for and reproduced on a large scale. Consequently 

 a new race might be created possessing on the average 

 an equal degree of quality and intensity as in the 

 exceptional case. Relative infertility might of course 

 stand in the way, but otherwise everything seemed 

 to show that races of highly gifted artists, saints, 

 mathematicians, administrators, mechanicians, con- 

 tented labourers, musicians, militants, and so forth, 

 might be theoretically called into existence, the 

 average excellence of each race in its particular line 



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