Francis Galton was a British freemason and propaganda writer,  used to push the eugenics (a term he invented) agenda. He was half-cousin of  Charles Darwin. Samuel Galton had founded the Lunar Society with Erasmus Darwin, which played a role in the Industrial Revolution. He was educated at Cambridge under William Hopkins (also the teacher of Lord Kelvin and James Maxwell). In 1869 he published Hereditary Genius. He was the teacher of Karl Pearson (mathematical statistics, teacher of Harold Laski). In 1989 he participated in the International Congress of Physiological Psychology with Max Dessoir, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, William James, Charles Richet (term ectoplasm), Pierre Janet, Auguste Forel, Hugo von Münsterberg, Eleanor Balfour (sister of Arthur Balfour),  Cesare Lombroso, Henry Sidgwick,...