INQUIRIES INTO HUMAN FACULTY, AND 

 ITS DEVELOPMENT. 



By FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S., etc. 

 8vo. Cloth, pp.xii.,387. $3.00. 



" The larger part of this book has already appeared in various periodicals; but 

 the matter is so interesting, and the treatment of the subject so unique, that it is well 

 worthy of preservation in this permanent form." — The Literary World. 



'* Scientific students of all kinds, especially psychologists, have anxiously awaited 

 this suggestive volume. . . . The volume contains colored plates and other illus- 

 trations, among them interesting specimens of composite portraiture. Although the 

 author intends it to be suggestive, and * renounces all claim to be encyclopedic,' he 

 has given the world another important chapter of the new branch of science which he 

 mapped out in his remarkable book on hereditary genius." — Philadelphia Item. 



"Mr. Galton has worked a complete revolution in the study of man. . . . The 

 book is of universal and profound interest to every human being. It is the beginning 

 of a new study of an old subject, which, if we are wise, will one day far in the future 

 make the human race a race of aristocrats. But the aristocracy will not be based on 

 money, nor on mere names, but on the proper breeding of men, and the proper laws 

 for human development, physical and mental." — New York World. 



" Mr. Galton's exceedingly interesting Inquiries into Human Faculty are so 

 novel and suggestive that they open the way for many extended lines of discussion 

 and argument concerning the future evolution of man. The book is made up largely 

 of magazine articles, but these are held together by the thread of a common purpose, 

 and form a connected outline. . . • _ His book affords a great amount of instruction, 

 and cannot fail to stimulate inquiry into the fascinating themes of which it treats." — 

 Boston Traveller. 



HEREDITARY GENIUS: 



An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences. 



By FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S., etc. 



8vo. pp. 379. $2.50. 



*^ Hereditary Gefiius is the title of a volume written in the sixties by Francis 

 Galton, F.R.S. To say that it created a sensation is to put it mildly, for a sensation 

 seldom lasts very long; but better would it be to say that by its subtle reasoning and 

 arrangement of facts, it made a deep impression on the minds of inquiring people. 

 The title hardly explains the contents of the book, as it is rather a study of vital laws 

 which governed the past and will govern the future. It strives to show the reader 

 the means by which the condition of the race may be ameliorated, and the standard 

 of mentality raised by natural methods. Many old precepts which have firm hold 

 on the mind are dissipated by an indisputable array of evidence, as by one fell blow; 

 and, while we are startled and surprised, we are pleased with the carnage and 

 advance of science. The book will open to one a field in which he can study with 

 profit, and make one the better for knowing a few vital principles which govern life, 

 and upon which the future happiness and usefulness of posterity largely depends." 

 — Brooklyn Illustrated Church Histo7'y. 



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