Davenport, Secretary of the Eugenics section of the American Breeders' Association concludes that "No people of English descent are more distantly related than thirtieth cousin, while most people are more nearly related than that.
Until the sciences of human genetics and eugenics have made more progress, the safest way to judge in such matters is by the qualities of a family as a whole.
Thus it has become a prime tenet of eugenics that babies must not be conceived under conditions of excessive mental worry or strain.
This crucial role of the doctor in eugenics is one of the few really deeply encouraging signs of our times.
Lordy God, man, do you want to put eugenics and blue-books in place of the love of woman?
I am prepared to accept eugenics and blue-books as a substitute for the love of women .
Evidently he did not care to talk about individual cases, and I felt that the rule was a safe one, to prevent Eugenicsfrom becoming Gossip.
Crafts, who had founded a sort of Eugenics Bureau, had come to advise him.
I think I shall go around to this Eugenics Bureau of Dr.
Either as wife of Burroughs, whom she fascinates and controls as she does Edith, she planned to break the will of Quincy or, in the other event, to administer the fortune as head of the Eugenics Foundation after the death of Dr.
Crafts always said it was a case of eugenics against euthenics," remarked Atherton, "of birth against environment.
Why, he even told me that Burroughs had gone so far as to take a leaf out of his book, so to speak, get in touch with the Eugenics Bureau as if to follow his footsteps, but really to pump them about Atherton himself.
The greatest hope of eugenics lies in social education.
The same end demanded by eugenics may be accomplished by segregating in life confinement all but the occasional criminals.
Euthenics is the science of controlled environment, as eugenics is the science of controlled heredity.
Conviction of personal and social responsibility as superior to individual preferences is the only safety of society in all its relations, from eugenics through economics to ethics and religion.
Only when we begin to think and work continuously at eugenics is its range revealed.
It therefore seems to the Eugenics Education Society of extreme importance that some substantial effort should be made for the reform of existing drunkards, or the permanent control of the irreformable.
Obviously eugenics would be of no use if the children could not survive, and no human infant can survive unless it be born into a moral environment: no motherhood, no man.
I claim for eugenics that it is the final and only judge of all proposals and principles, however labelled, new or old, orthodox or heterodox.
Those who will never become, or can no longer become, fathers or mothers, may do as they please about whiskey, so far as the ideal of eugenics or race-culture is concerned.
It gives some index to the quantity and quality of the work done by Professor Pearson and his followers since the Francis Galton Eugenics Laboratory was founded.
Charity refers to the individual; Statesmanship to the nation; Eugenics cares for both.
The opinions of Mr. Bernard Shaw on the question of eugenics may be quoted from his contribution to the subject published in Sociological Papers 1904, pp.
Thus though an advocate of eugenics may be applauded for his judgment if he declares that the creation of genius will for ever be impossible, yet I should not care to assert that the ultimate limitations of eugenics can thus be defined.
Moreover, it became the starting point of that recent movement in favour of National Eugenics (see note p.
Greater tasks than those contemplated in the broadest scheme of the Eugenics committee have been carried out in this country.
The first and main point is to secure the general intellectual acceptance of Eugenics as a hopeful and most important study.
I take Eugenics very seriously, feeling that its principles ought to become one of the dominant motives in a civilized nation, much as if they were one of its religious tenets.
In brief, eugenicsis a virile creed, full of hopefulness, and appealing to many of the noblest feelings of our nature.
With this definition of Eugenics and preliminary statement of its aims before us we may proceed to a somewhat fuller statement of the facts within this field.
The aim of Eugenics is the production of a more healthy, more vigorous, more able humanity.
The wise and honored founder of Eugenics looks forward to the inclusion of eugenic ideals as a factor in religion.
It is not a complete statement of the facts and foundations of Eugenics in any particular.
He said it was the thin end of the wedge; that they ought not to have reported until experiments had been made with a different diet: he blamed the Eugenics Section, too, for not being able to produce a tougher strain of workers.
For twenty or thirty years before Prince Mechow got into the saddle all the young hot-headed Meccanian patriots got Eugenics on the brain, but none of them knew how to put their ideas into practice.
He railed very bitterly against a member of theEugenics Board who had tried to get authority to improve the supply of artists.
Eugenics is the attempt to solve the problem from the biological and evolutionary point of view.
Constructive" Eugenics aims to arouse the enthusiasm or the interest of the people in the welfare of the world fifteen or twenty generations in the future.
Most of the Eugenists, including Professor Karl Pearson and his colleagues of the Eugenics Laboratory of the University of London and of the biometric laboratory in University College, have retained the age-old point of view of "Nature vs.
He hoped at length to introduce Eugenics "into the national conscience like a new religion.
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenicsfor critical and diagnostic investigations.
The problem of human heredity is now seen to be infinitely more complex than imagined by Galton and his followers, and the optimistic hope of elevatingEugenics to the level of a religion is a futile one.
Eugenics thus concerns itself with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage.
I see no impossibility in Eugenics becoming a religious dogma among mankind, but its details must first be worked out sedulously in the study.
I do not think it relevant here to discuss whether the innate superiority of endowment in the governing class really is so overwhelming as to justify the Eugenics Education Society's peculiar use of the terms `fit' and `unfit'!
Some such effort as this has been made by the Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics in Great Britain.
The eugenics movement has enormously stimulated research into heredity by the methods both of animal experimentation and observation, and study of heredity in man.
There is only one civilisation immune from decay, and that civilisation endures on the practical eugenics once taught by a united Christendom and now expounded almost solely by the Catholic Church.
In all considerations of the general question of Race Suicide, one must take note of the general question of Eugenics or Human Breeding.
While Eugenics strives to prevent the unfit from flooding the race with unfit progeny, it at the same time strives to educate the race so that the fit may bear and rear better offsprings.
Galton, who recognized the futility of mere legislation to elevate the race, believed that the hope of the future lay in eugenicsbecoming a part of religion.
The spirit of Eugenics may be expressed in the words of Dr.
It is one of the cardinal principles of Eugenics that those with a bad family history should not become parents.
That is why the new science of eugenics or racial hygiene is acquiring so immense an importance.
When we consider the general subject of Eugenics we touch upon the highest ground, and are concerned with our best hopes for the future of the world.
A problem which is often and justly cited as one to be settled by Eugenics is that presented by the existence among us of the large class of the feeble-minded.
The only compulsion we can apply in eugenics is the compulsion that comes from within.
It has been said that eugenics is futile because it cannot define its end.
But we may remember that Eugenics can never prevent absolutely the occurrence of feeble-minded persons, even in the extreme degree of the imbecile and the idiot.
Even among savages eugenics may be said to exist, if only in the crude and unscientific practice of destroying feeble, deformed, and abnormal infants at birth.
Galton looked upon eugenics as fitted to become a factor in religion (Essays in Eugenics, p.
In England the Eugenics Education Society (with its organ the Eugenics Review) has done much to stimulate an intelligent interest in eugenics.
It is here that the ideals of Eugenics may be expected to work fruitfully.
The Eugenics Council had made an unusually good match when they brought us together.
The Eugenics Council had taken care of that very effectively when we announced our plans for our sabbatical.
Like the way I felt when the Eugenics Council selected me to be your mate.
It was just the Eugenicscouncil working through us--entirely involuntarily.
If we want to strive after healthy, normal mediocrity, then the principles of animal eugenics become applicable to the human race.
Hale 794 Eugenicsas a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease Horatio M.
Every one interested in eugenics should be acquainted with the work of this office.
The term Eugenics was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton in his book entitled Inquiries Into Human Faculties, and we may therefore look to him for a satisfactory definition.
He says, "Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control, that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Memoirs and Bulletins published by the Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N.
Laitinen's studies on man, together with three other studies of the Eugenics Laboratory in London, show that in man also more children are born to alcoholics than to normal parents.
We cannot hope to make much advance in the science of Eugenics without a careful study of facts that are now accessible with difficulty, if at all.
It has, indeed, strong claims to become an orthodox religious tenet of the future, for Eugenics cooperates with the workings of Nature by securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races.
The aim of Eugenics is to bring as many influences as can be reasonably employed, to cause the useful classes in the community to contribute more than their proportion to the next generation.
For a criticism of the claims of eugenics as a social science see Leonard T.
Though no agreement could be reached as to absolute morality, the essentials ofEugenics may be easily defined.
Eugenics as a Science of Progress[340] Eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage.
Eugenics may be regarded as a program of biological adaptation of the human race in conscious realization of social ideals.
Research in eugenicshas been fostered by the Galton Laboratory in England, and by the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor in the United States.
What would you say to the possibility or the impossibility of the suggestion of eugenics becoming a religious dogma as suggested by Galton?
Eugenics is a conscious program of further domestication by the elimination of defective physical and mental racial traits and by the improvement of the racial stock through the social selection of superior traits.
Eugenics will find a sphere of usefulness in the spread of this piece of saving knowledge.
Patience is needed because unlike other cures Eugenics will help the individual less than it will assist society, and it will always place the interests of the race first and foremost.
It would, however, be contrary to the spirit of Eugenics to confine attention to the sadder side of statistics.
A nation converted to the gospel of Eugenicswill not boggle at providing the means for saving itself.
Eugenics on the other hand starts out with the principle that there is nothing so sacred as life.
Eugenics speaks with no uncertain voice on the "Colour question"--every race must work out its own salvation, and in the interests of each race there must be no intermarrying.
Eugenics opposes chaos in the interests of the race.
The failure to heed such warning should inevitably result in imprisonment--a very short term will suffice, for with Eugenics established as a rule of society, the State could afford to be patient.
The advocates of Eugenics are prepared for small beginnings but they have enormous faith in its future.
As Eugenics advances we may learn more of the racial poisons, and a scientific black-list may be drawn up of those hereditary taints which inflict most harm on the community.
Now all our sociology and eugenics and the rest of it are not so much materialist as confusedly Calvinist, they are chiefly occupied in educating the child before he exists.
It is clear, then, that sex-hygiene (in the strict medical sense) and eugenics are parallel and not conflicting.
Obviously, we need both sex-hygiene andeugenics as part of the larger sex-instruction.
Some of the chief facts of eugenics should be a part of every well-organized scheme of sex-instruction, and taught through biology (Sec.
This is the sum total of the task of eugenics in the accurate sense of the term.
Eugenics aims to select better parents who will transmit their own qualities genetically.
The fact is that eugenics and sex-hygiene have little in common.
The established principles of heredity and eugenics which foretell the possible coming of a better race of humans.
Eugenics is the science of reproducing better humans by applying the established laws of genetics or heredity.
Eugenics and sex hygiene and all these plays and books with a moral purpose, you know.
Eugenics also will be looked to for help, and it may in time bring to light much that is now hidden from our ken.
Havelock Ellis stated in an article in the Eugenics Review, Vol.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eugenics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
