Galton, Francis, 1822-1911
Just before the arrival of the letter in which my publisher asked me to write the memories of my life, I happened to be reading Shakespeare’s _Henry IV._ and laughing over Falstaff’s soliloquy after the gross exaggerations by Justice Shallow of his own youthful performances. I...
Just before the arrival of the letter in which my publisher asked me to write the memories of my life, I happened to be reading Shakespeare’s _Henry IV._ and laughing over Falst...
2. CHAPTER III was born into a family of four sisters and two brothers, who were older than myself by ages ranging from seven to fourteen years, the brothers being all younger than the siste...
3. CHAPTER IIIIt was strongly desired by both my parents, but especially by my mother, that my future profession should be medicine, like that of her famous father, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, F.R.S....
4. CHAPTER IVIn the spring of 1840 a passion for travel seized me as if I had been a migratory bird. While attending the lectures at King’s College I could see the sails of the lighters movi...
5. CHAPTER VIt was a notable day in my life when, in the year 1840, escorted by my father on the top of a stage coach, I caught my first view of the principal buildings of Cambridge. There...
6. CHAPTER VIFamily matters—Malta and Alexandria—Nile—Korosko—Berber by desert—Boat to Khartum and White Nile—Bayouda Desert to Dongola—Wady Halfa and Cairo—Recent visit to Professor Petrie’...
7. CHAPTER VIIOur company parted at Alexandria. Barclay returned home, I went to Syria, and Boulton desired to go farther East, to study Arabic and Oriental modes of thought and expression. O...
8. CHAPTER VIIII returned to my mother and sister, who then occupied Claverdon, much in need of a little rest. I was also conscious that with all my varied experiences I was ignorant of the ve...
9. CHAPTER IXTravellers of the present generation need some effort of imagination to put themselves into the mental positions of those who were living in 1849. Blank spaces in the map of the...
10. Chapter III. Unless these misdoings could be stopped, my journey wouldsoon come to an end. The Damaras believed that I and my party were merely Hottentots in disguise, and acting as spies. To make a long story short, I took Hans and two intelligen...
11. CHAPTER XSize of caravan—Horrors of savagedom—Ovambondé—To the Ovampo on ride-oxen—Back to Damara land—Journey in Namaqua land—Bushmen—Large game—Back to Walfish Bay—Home—Medal of Royal...
12. CHAPTER XIOn returning to England, my gratification was great in finding all my immediate relatives well and eager to welcome me. But I was rather used up in health, and desired to get ou...
13. CHAPTER XIII was rather unsettled during a few years, wishing to undertake a fresh bit of geographical exploration, or even to establish myself in some colony; but I mistrusted my powers,...
14. CHAPTER XIIIEntries in old diaries recall many pleasant social meetings at home, whether dinners, breakfasts, or simple gatherings of friends, where there was generally some traveller or ot...
15. did. He was then fast rising, but had not yet reached the fulness of hisMy wife and I found a frequent travelling-companion in Miss Brandram, afterwards the wife and subsequently the widow of A. MacLennan, the writer on various phases of prehistoric...
16. CHAPTER XIVThe travels of the successive explorers of Eastern Africa who started from the Zanzibar Coast were watched by geographers with the keenest interest. I was in one way or another...
17. CHAPTER XVI have been connected with the British Association more or less intimately during many years, four times as President of a Section or “Department,” once as deliverer of a Lectur...
18. CHAPTER XVIGeneral Sir E. Sabine—Sextants and watches—Now merged into National Physical Laboratory—Meteorological Committee, subsequently Council of the Board of Trade—Self-recording instr...
19. CHAPTER XVIIMy inquiries into hereditary genius, of which I shall speak in a later chapter, were sufficiently advanced before the year 1865 to show the pressing necessity of obtaining a mul...
20. CHAPTER XVIIIMy first idea of composite portraiture arose through a request by Sir Edmund Du Cane, R.E., then H.M. Inspector of Prisons, to examine the photographs of criminals, in order to...
21. CHAPTER XIXMeasurement of mental powers—Gentiles—Number forms—Visions of sane persons—Experiments on self—Classification by judgment—Sandow—Weight of cattle—First and second prizes—Arithme...
22. CHAPTER XXThe publication in 1859 of the _Origin of Species_ by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect w...
23. CHAPTER XXIThe subject of Race Improvement, or Eugenics, with which I have much occupied myself during the last few years, is a pursuit of no recent interest. I published my views as long...
24. PART I.—GENERAL LITERATURETHE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS: A STUDY OF THE CHARACTERS OF THE CÆSARS OF THE JULIAN AND CLAUDIAN HOUSES. With numerous Illustrations from Busts, Gems, Cameos, etc. _Sixth Edition....
25. PART II.—FICTIONTHE HIGH TOBY: Being further Chapters in the Life and Fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime Gentleman of the Road. With a Frontispiece by CLAUDE SHEPPERSON....