Book · 2020
Inquiries Into Human Faculty
Its Development
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Inquiries Into Human Faculty is a pioneering 1883 book by Francis Galton that explores various aspects of human psychology, heredity, and anthropology. The text has been analyzed on historical podcasts examining the darker origins of certain scientific movements. On the podcast Behind the Bastards, host Robert Evans cited Galton's book across multiple episodes to investigate the intellectual roots of eugenics. In one segment, Evans noted that Galton first published and coined the infamous term eugenics while working on the development of this specific book. In a subsequent episode, Evans returned to Inquiries into Human Faculty to demonstrate Galton's obsessive preoccupation with urban decay, degeneration, and congenital imperfections among populations. Through these discussions, Galton's work is presented not merely as an artifact of nineteenth-century scientific inquiry, but as a foundational text that institutionalized dangerous ideologies regarding human breeding and societal worth. The podcast highlights the book to trace how flawed pseudoscientific theories were formalized and integrated into academic and public discourse during that era.
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Robert Evans In another one of his books, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development, in 1883 published in 1883, h… 2
“In another one of his books, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development, in 1883 published in 1883, he wrote,”
“Galton first came up with the infamous term eugenics in the early 1880s, we don't know exactly when, but it's first published when he's working on a book called inquiries into human faculty and its development.”
