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FEBRUARY 16, 1822—JANUARY 17, 1911. THE death of Francis Galton marks, not only the removal of another link with the leaders of the great scientific movement of the nineteenth century— represented by Darwin, Kelvin, Huxley, Clerk-Maxwell, and Galton in this country—but something far more real to those who have been in touch with him up to the last, namely, the cessation of a source of inspiration and suggestion which did not flag even to the day of his death. The keynote to Francis Galton's influence over the science of the last fifty years lies in those words: suggestion and inspiration. He belonged to that small group of inquirers, who do not specialise, but by their wide sympathies and general knowledge demonstrate how science is a real unity, based on the application of a common logic and a common method to the observation and treatment of all phenomena. He broke down the barriers, which the specialist is too apt to erect round his particular field, and introduced novel processes and new ideas into many dark corners of our summary of natural phenomena.
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Francis Galton . Nature 85, 440–445 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085440c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/085440c0