I examined many pages of its index here and there as samples of the whole, and estimated that it contained fully one thousand words expressive of character, each of which has a separate shade of meaning, while each shares a large part of its meaning with some of the rest. — Francis Galton, Measurement of Character, 1884 Despite Galton's early ventures into the lexical study of personality, over two decades passed before English-language scholars continued his work.
I examined many pages of its index here and there as samples of the whole, and estimated that it contained fully one thousand words expressive of character, each of which has a separate shade of meaning, while each shares a large part of its meaning with some of the rest. » – فرانسيس جالتون، قياس الشخصية، 1884 وعلى الرغم من المحاولات المبكرة لجالتون في الدراسة المعجمية للشخصية، فقد مر أكثر من عقدين من الزمان قبل أن يستكمل علماء اللغة الإنجليزية عمله.