...sort of metaphysical implication 1 The word was coined by Fechner ; see his Elements der Psychophysih, 1860, i. 8. In this passage, Fechner defines psychophysics...and psychical worlds " ; and his main object in the Elements is, accordingly, to establish the laws that govern the interaction of mental and bodily phenomena....

...not surprising that Fechner's work attracted Galton since Fechner, a former physicist, was seeking an "exact science of the functional relations or relations of dependency between body and mind."49 To collect data on mental imaging Galton designed a questionnaire, distributing several hundred...