''Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development'' is an 1883 book by

Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- ...

, in which he covers a variety of psychological phenomena and their subsequent measurement. In this text he also references the idea of

eugenics Eugenics ( ; ) is a fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or ...

and coined the term for the first time (though he had published his ideas without the name many years earlier).

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Text and facsimile
*Inquiries into Human Facility and its Development, ''Nature'' volume 28, pages97–98(1883) * {{psych-book-stub 1883 non-fiction books Eugenics Works by Francis Galton