Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development

"Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development" by Francis Galton is a scientific study from the late 1800s that looks closely at what makes people who they are, covering everything from what we inherit to how our minds work; Galton uses experiments and numbers to understand people better, looking at how we might improve as a species through eugenics, hoping to bring together ideas from his past work into one big exploration of human abilities; his goal is to deeply understand our different traits, believing this understanding is key to making things better for future generations, and he stresses the need to look at different groups without bias, understanding that our differences can be a good thing, setting up a detailed search for the measurements and features that define human abilities and what they mean for how we evolve and move forward as a society.