This edition first published in 1970. Francis Galton has been
honoured as the founder of biostatics and one of the creators of
modern psychology. His principal aim was to establish a body of
statistical knowledge about mental heredity which would result in a
new pattern of behaviour for society. The relationship between
outstanding men had led him to conclude that mental traits are
inherited, and that an ideal society would take advantage of this
"fact". In this particular work, which he termed a "Natural History
of the English Men of Science of the present day", he examined at
great length the antecedents, environment, education and hereditary
features of the most prominent men of science in order to establish
certain laws relating to heredity. It is a landmark in the
transition from introspective to objective methods in biological
and psychological research, and the author's statistical,
nonanecdotal approach was to prove immensely fruitful for the
development of psychology. Indeed the questionnaire included in the
work is probably the earliest in existence. As Professor Cowan
points out in her introduction, historians as well as scientists
intent upon a deeper understanding of the Victorian mind will find
much of interest in this remarkable book.
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