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Sir Francis Galton [1822-1911], Taveler [sic], meteorologist and anthropologist
 
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The Art of Travel, or Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries [1855]
a vade-mecum
of much information at present wasted

and which may be used to forecast
a Life History of its owner

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The question of visions also engaged his attention
that,
however obscure and ill-explained they may be, they belong for the most part to an order of phenomena which no one dreams in other cases of calling supernatural
that
in view of the vast multiplicity of mental operations in simultaneous action,
much of what passes for supernatural is
merely
the result
of one part
of the mind
being contemplated
by another

as if
it were
another
person.

and not vague generalities