Inquiries into human faculty and its development vs Memories of my life: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Inquiries into human faculty and its development Inquiries into human faculty and its development Sir Francis Galton · 1883 ★★★★☆ 3.6 261 pages · ≈ 4 h 50 m · Challenging

In this book author covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. In this text he also references the idea of eugenics and coined the term for the first time.

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Cover of Memories of my life Memories of my life Sir Francis Galton · 1908 339 pages · ≈ 6 h 17 m · Challenging

Memories of my Life, first published in 1908, is an autobiography by the psychologist, anthropologist, geographer, and inventor Sir Francis Galton. This book contains a detailed account of Galton’s life, and will be of…

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