A treatise on man and the development of his faculties / by A. Quetelet ; now first translated into English.

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1842
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    CONTENTS, . Pack PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION, BY M. QUETELET, - - - - - - -y INTRODUCTORY, 5 BOOK FIRST. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYSICAL QUALITIES OF SIAN, - - - - 9 CHAPTER I.—OF BIRTHS IN GENER^VL, AND OF FECUNDITY, - - - - . ]() CHAPTER II. OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL CAUSES ON THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS, - - 11 CHAPTER III. OF THE INFLUENCE OF DISTURBING CAUSES ON THE NUBIBER OF BIRTHS, - 21 CHAPTER IV. OF STILL-BORN CHILDREN, - -- -- --24 CHAPTER V. OF THE INFLUENCE OF NATURAL CAUSES ON BIORTALITY, - - . 2C CHAPTER VI. OF THE INFLUENCE OF DISTURBING CAUSES ON BIORTALITY, - - - 37 CHAPTER VII.—RELATIONS OF POPULATION TO SOCIAL PROSPERITY, . - - 43 BOOK SECOND.—DEVELOPBIENT OF STATURE, WEIGHT, STRENGTH, &C., - - - - 57 CHAPTER I. OF THE DEVELOPBIENT OF THE HEIGHT, - - - _ - - 58 CHAPTER II.—OF THE DEVELOPBIENT OF THE BVEIGHT, AND OF ITS RELATIONS TO THE DEVELOP- BIENT OF THE HEIGHT OF THE BODY, - -- -- --63 CHAPTER III. OF THE DEB'^ELOPBIENT OF STRENGTH OR POWER, - - - - 67 CHAPTER rv.—INSPIRATION, PULSATION, SWIFTNESS, &C., ----- 70 BOOK THIRD. DEB'ELOPBIENT OF THE BIOR.VL AND INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES OF BIAN, - - 70 CHAPTER I.—DEVHLOPBIENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES, - - - - 74 CHAPTER II. DEVELOPBIENT OF BIORjLL QUALITIES, - - - - - 78 CHAPTER III. OF THE DEVELOPBIENT OF THE PROPENSITY TO CRIBIE, - - - - 82 BOOK FOURTH. OF THE PROPERTIES OF THE AVERAGE BIAN, OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEBI, AND OF THE FINAL ADB’^ANCEBIENT OF THIS STUDY', ------ - 96 CHAPTER I.—PROPERTIES OF THE AVERAGE BIAN, ------ 96 CHAPTER II.— OF THE ULTIBIATE PROGRESS OF OUR KNOBVLEDGE OF THE LABV OF HUBIAN DEVE- LOPBIENT, - 103 AUTHOR S APPENDIX, translator’s appendix. 109 119