No Eugenist believes in over-emphasis of sexual knowledge, but every Eugenist believes in the absolute importance of early familiarity with the essential information of sex-life.
The Eugenist does not desire to detract from the responsibility of parenthood, but rather to increase it.
I am a Eugenist because I believe that the nature we have received from hereditary sources transcends in effectiveness all the nurture which follows birth.
This in itself justifies the necessity of the Eugenist demand for educationally preparing girls for motherhood.
In the Eugenist State there will be a determined enmity to the increased generations of the criminal, the weak-minded and the diseased.
The Eugenist does not propose to extend the operation of sterilisation beyond the classes above mentioned.
His ideal goes beyond this practicable programme, for the Eugenistaims at some final justification of Nature.
There is little doubt that similarly the more wholesome attitude toward parenthood advocated by the eugenist would be taken as a matter of course, once the idea became prevalent.
They indicate the great extent to which war affects the human breed, but they do not show that war affects the quality of the breed, and until that is shown the eugenist remains undisturbed.
Without doubt, no eugenist could recommend an epileptic to become a parent.
It would seem, therefore, on the whole, that when the eugenist takes a wide survey of this question, he need not qualify his disapproval of war by any regrets over the loss of such virtues as warfare fosters.
War, then, offers one of the greatest problems which the eugenist must face, for a few months of war may undo all that eugenic reforms can gain in a generation.
In a survey of vital statistics, to ascertain whether marriages are as frequent and as early as national welfare requires, theeugenist finds at first no particularly alarming figures.
Remembering what a selected group of young women go to college, the eugenist can hardly help suspecting that the women's colleges of the United States, as at present conducted, are from his point of view doing great harm to the race.
If marriage within such a selected class as this is being avoided, or greatly postponed, the eugenist can not help feeling concerned.
The fear of racial decline provides the eugenist with a far stronger leverage than did the hope of accelerating racial progress.
Such things probably will appear trivial to the genealogist, but to the eugenist they are sometimes important.
Altruism can be found in the sacred writings of probably all religions, and the modern tendency is to make much of such passages, in which it is easy for the eugenist to find a warrant.
What faults does the eugenist find with the socialist movement?
The eugenist only asks that both factors be taken into account, whereas in the past the factor of heredity has been too often ignored.
And these irregularities are of a nature to give the eugenistgrave concern.
A few of the faults of method in genealogy, which the eugenist most deplores, are: (a) The information which is of most value is exactly that which genealogy ordinarily does not furnish.
As to the details of vocational guidance, the eugenist is perhaps not entitled to give much advice; yet it seems likely that a more thorough study of the inheritance of ability would be of value to the educator.
In dealing with both insanity and epilepsy, the eugenist faces the difficulty that occasionally people of the very kind whose production he most wishes to see encouraged--real geniuses--may carry the taint.
If the criterion of ethical action is the provision it makes for the future, then the ethics of the eugenist must rank high, for he not only looks far to the future, but takes direct and effective steps to safeguard the future.
The consistent eugenist is therefore an ardent euthenist.
Heedless of his wound, his thought now was to repair the mischief he had done.
Go in peace," she replied, "and be happy in thy daughter; I have lost mine.
The god would have stopped her as she spake, but she was too quick for him.
At last a princess intoxicated him and he forgot his vow.
The study of these ancient tales serves, then, much more than the purpose of special information.
She represented the righteous anger and vengeance of the gods, particularly toward the proud, the insolent, and breakers of the law.
The challenge was accepted, and Tmolus, the mountain-god, was chosen umpire.
The Eugenist points out that heredity is the great determining factor in the lives of men and women.
This is not such a remote danger as the optimistic Eugenist might suppose.
By education, by persuasion, by appeals to racial ethics and religious motives, the ardent Eugenist hopes to increase the fertility of the "fit.
You may bring all the changes possible on "Nurture" or environment, the Eugenist may say to the Socialist, but comparatively little can be effected until you control biological and hereditary elements of the problem.
The Eugenist who overlooks the importance of environment as a determining factor in human life, is as short-sighted as the Socialist who neglects the biological nature of man.
The servant is not intellectual creatively," the Eugenist replied, "yet it would never do to class him as Labour since he produces nothing.
If these ideas represent the substantial truth, you will see how the whole function of the eugenist is theoretically simplified.
What theEugenist demands is knowledge, then belief, and action based thereon.
The Eugenist would oppose only those social activities, if such there be, that conflict with his ideal of genuine, progressive, human evolution.
It is intensely practical--so very practical, indeed, that the Eugenist hesitates to make many suggestions of a definite nature looking directly and immediately toward specific action.
As a Eugenist he is not concerned with factory legislation, alcoholism, or play grounds, unless it can be shown that there is a relation between these things and the innate mental and physical properties of the race.
Above all, the Eugenist needs to know more of Mendelian heredity in man.
The Eugenist has been ridiculed as one responsible for the absurd schemes proposed in his name, perhaps seriously, by the unscientific but well-intentioned sympathizer.
If the higher birth rate is among the socially valuable elements of each different class the Eugenist can only approve; to bring about such a relation is one of his aims.
For the Eugenist this is the richest field for investigation and one which is certain to yield large results.
The biologist or Eugenist is of course heartily with the sociologist in these endeavors, but as a human being, not as a biologist or Eugenist.
The Eugenist pleads in this work for more sympathetic consideration of the problems of relief--for a sympathy which is wider, which transcends the individual person and reaches the social group, even the nation or race.
More vigorously and more unmistakably does the Eugenist discourage anything that leads to matings of the unfit and, above all, to their reproduction.
Her hero, Orde Taverner, surgeon by trade and eugenist by profession, falls in love with Elizma, a Cornish beauty and rare fiddler.
She really comes of quite untainted stock, so the eugenist is satisfied and husband and wife reconciled.
But if I were restricted, on grounds of public economy, to giving Mr. Wells only one medal ob cives servatos, I would give him a medal as the Eugenist who destroyed Eugenics.
Or again, when I spoke of people "being married forcibly by the police," another distinguished Eugenist almost achieved high spirits in his hearty assurance that no such thing had ever come into their heads.
That this is so, that at root the Eugenist is the Employer, there are multitudinous proofs on every side, but they are of necessity miscellaneous, and in many cases negative.
The Eugenist would say, "In such cases the bowels should, etc.
The lowest sophist in the Greek schools would remember enough of Socrates to force the Eugenist to tell him (at least) whether Midias was segregated because he was curable or because he was incurable.
Keats died young; but he had more pleasure in a minute than a Eugenist gets in a month.
The Eugenist would say, "The region kites should, if possible, be fattened; and the offal of this slave is available for the dietetic experiment.
The Eugenisthas to settle, not the result of fixing one steady thing to a second steady thing; but what will happen when one toppling and dizzy equilibrium crashes into another.
In order to make it brief and typical, I take one case of a more or less Eugenist sort from a paper that lies open in front of me--a paper that still bears on its forehead the boast of being peculiarly an organ of democracy in revolt.
The Eugenist really sets up as saints the very men whom hundreds of families have called sneaks.
The Eugenist doctors are not such fools as they look in the light of any logical inquiry about what they want.
And similarly a man is not imbecile if only a Eugenist thinks so.
I do not mean that no remote Eugenist wrote upon the subject; for it is impossible to read all writings, especially Eugenist writings.
Unless the socialist is a eugenist as well, the socialist state will speedily perish from racial degradation.
Unfortunately, the popular mind has received the impression that this incident constitutes the sum total of the eugenic idea, while the truth is that the eugenist is only slightly concerned with its modus operandi.
The eugenistdoes not even dictate what the test for parenthood shall be.
The eugenist believes the cardinal error of the past has been a failure to recognize the worth or value of human life.
In this way the cause of the eugenist will greatly prosper, and the race will profit through the effort which will further the conservation of the best and most fit specimens for parenthood.
This does not imply, however, that the eugenist must solve the elementary problem of how the state will ensure its own salvation by guaranteeing worthy children.
The fundamental law of theeugenist must be to recognize that fatherhood is a deliberate and responsible act, for which a fixed accountability must be maintained.
A function of the eugenist is to gather and attest statistics, and to establish conclusions based on these statistics.
The eugenist will not be compelled to open the door; it will be opened for him.
Data bearing upon physique and physiognomy, details of anatomy and function, mind and behaviour will so be co-ordinated as no eugenisthas hitherto succeeded in doing.
In general, meanwhile, the eugenist should strive for raising the level of the endocrine potential, and discourage its lowering.
If the eugenistis to limit himself to the method of the animal breeder he will have to rest satisfied with the characters or hereditary factors given, that turn up spontaneously in an individual.
Seeing the individual as a system of chemical substances interacting will assist enormously to predict the nature, character and constitution of his descendants, which is essentially what the eugenist is after.
It is a fact which has been ignored or inadequately recognized by every feminist and by every eugenist from Plato until the present time.
For the eugenist who is primarily concerned with quality these reforms are surely unchallengeable.
Otherwise, I should forbid the use of the term Eugenistat all by anyone who is unprepared to move a finger or utter a word on behalf of the care and the protection of expectant motherhood.
He believed that if he could once utilise this primitive instinct of the Meccanian women, he could do something much more effective than eliminating certain feeble types, which was all that the Eugenist theorists had so far aimed at.
Mechow himself was a Eugenist of the most brutal type.
The lament of the eugenist resounds in all countries alike.
The fears of theeugenist about the quality of the population are far more reasonable than the invectives of the fanatic about its defective quantity.
The Eugenist has to take into account the religious and social beliefs and prejudices of mankind.
To Mr. Wellcome it peculiarly belonged, and Jellies and the Eugenist might have shaken hands upon it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eugenist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
