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SENSITIVITY The only information that reaches us concerning out- ward events appears to pass through the avenue of our senses; and the more perceptive the senses are of difference, the larger is the field upon which our judg ment and intelligence can act. Sensation mounts through a series of grades of just perceptible differ ences." It starts from the zero of consciousness, and it becomes more intense as the stimulus increases (though at a slower rate) up to the point when stimulus is so strong as to begin to damage the nerve apparatus. It then yields place to pain, which is another form of sensation, and which continues until the nerve apparatus is destroyed. Two persons may be equally able just to hear the same faint sound, and they may equally begin to be pained by the same loud sound, and yet they may differ as to the number of intermediate grades of sensation. The grades will be less numerous as the organisation is of a lower order, and the keenest sensation possible to it will in conse- quence be less intense. An artist who incapable of dis criminating more differences of tint than another man is not necessarily more capable of seeing clearly in twilight, or more or less intolerant of sunshine. A mu- sician is not necessarily able to hear very faint sounds, nor to be more startled by loud sounds than others are. A mechanic who works hard with heavy tools and has rough and grimy thumbs, insensible to very light pressures, may yet have a singularly discriminat ing power of touch in respect to the pressures that he can feel. The discriminative faculty of idiots is curi ously low;they hardly distinguish between heat and cold, and their sense of pain is so obtuse that some of the more idiotic seem hardly to know what it is. In their dull lives, such pain as can be excited in them may literally be accepted with a welcome surprise During a visit to Earlswood Asylum I saw two boy:s whose toe-nails had grown into the flesh and had been excised by the surgeon. This is a horrible torture to ordinary persons, but the idiot lads were said to have shown no distress during the operation; it was not necessary to hold them, and they looked rather interested at what was being done. I also saw a boy with the scar of a severe wound on his wrist; the story being that he had first burned himself slightly by acci dent, and, liking the keenness of the new sensation, he took the next opportunity of repeating the experi ++.ence, but, idiot-like, he overdid it *from pages 19-20 of “Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Develop- ment" by Francis Galton INQUIRIES into HUMAN FACULTY AND ITS D DEVELOPMENT FrancisGALTON INNEW YORK

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SENSITIVITY The only information that reaches us concerning out- ward events appears to pass through the avenue of our senses; and the more perceptive the senses are of difference, the larger is the field upon which our judg ment and intelligence can act. Sensation mounts through a series of grades of just perceptible differ ences." It starts from the zero of consciousness, and it becomes more intense as the stimulus increases (though at a slower rate) up to the point when stimulus is so strong as to begin to damage the nerve apparatus. It then yields place to pain, which is another form of sensation, and which continues until the nerve apparatus is destroyed. Two persons may be equally able just to hear the same faint sound, and they may equally begin to be pained by the same loud sound, and yet they may differ as to the number of intermediate grades of sensation. The grades will be less numerous as the organisation is of a lower order, and the keenest sensation possible to it will in conse- quence be less intense. An artist who incapable of dis criminating more differences of tint than another man is not necessarily more capable of seeing clearly in twilight, or more or less intolerant of sunshine. A mu- sician is not necessarily able to hear very faint sounds, nor to be more startled by loud sounds than others are. A mechanic who works hard with heavy tools and has rough and grimy thumbs, insensible to very light pressures, may yet have a singularly discriminat ing power of touch in respect to the pressures that he can feel. The discriminative faculty of idiots is curi ously low;they hardly distinguish between heat and cold, and their sense of pain is so obtuse that some of the more idiotic seem hardly to know what it is. In their dull lives, such pain as can be excited in them may literally be accepted with a welcome surprise During a visit to Earlswood Asylum I saw two boy:s whose toe-nails had grown into the flesh and had been excised by the surgeon. This is a horrible torture to ordinary persons, but the idiot lads were said to have shown no distress during the operation; it was not necessary to hold them, and they looked rather interested at what was being done. I also saw a boy with the scar of a severe wound on his wrist; the story being that he had first burned himself slightly by acci dent, and, liking the keenness of the new sensation, he took the next opportunity of repeating the experi ++.ence, but, idiot-like, he overdid it *from pages 19-20 of “Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Develop- ment" by Francis Galton INQUIRIES into HUMAN FACULTY AND ITS D DEVELOPMENT FrancisGALTON INNEW YORK

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