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Most men shrink from responsibility; study of gregarious animals: especially
of the cattle of the Damaras; fore-oxen to waggon teams; conditions of safety
of herds; cow and young calf when approached by lions; the most effective
size of herd; corresponding production of leaders; similarly as regards
barbarian tribes and their leaders; power of tyranny vested in chiefs; political
and religious persecutions; hence human servility; but society may flourish
without servility; its corporate actions would then have statistical constancy;
nations who are guided by successive orators, etc., must be inconstant; the
romantic side of servility; free political life.
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Reference to Hereditary Genius.
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Purport of inquiry; circular of questions (see Appendix for this, p. 255); the
first answers were from scientific men, and were negative; those from
persons in general society were quite the reverse; sources of my materials;
they are mutually corroborative; analysis of returns from 100 persons mostly
of some eminence; extracts from replies of those in whom the visualising
faculty is highest; those in whom it is mediocre; lowest; conformity between
these and other sets of haphazard returns; octile, median, etc., values;
visualisation of colour; some liability to exaggeration; blindfold chess-
players; remarkable instances of visualisation; the faculty is not necessarily
connected with keen sight or tendency to dream; comprehensive imagery; the
faculty in different sexes and ages; is strongly hereditary; seems notable
among the French; Bushmen; Eskimo; prehistoric men; admits of being
educated; imagery usually fails in flexibility; special and generic images (see
also Appendix, p. 229); use of the faculty.
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General account of the peculiarity; mutually corroborative statements;
personal evidence given at the Anthropological Institute; specimens of a few
descriptions and illustrative woodcuts; great variety in the Forms; their early
origin; directions in which they run; bold conceptions of children concerning
height and depth; historical dates, months, etc.; alphabet; derivation of the
Forms from the spoken names of numerals; fixity of the Form compared to
that of the handwriting; of animals working in constant patterns; of track of
eye when searching for lost objects; occasional origin from figures on clock;
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