Thus those short-sighted eugenists who overlook the importance of environment are overlooking the only practical channel through which their aims can be realized.
Already," I read in a recent able and interesting editorial article in the British Medical Journal, "eugenists in their kind enthusiasm are threatening to stamp out the germs of possible genius.
If there is any great man of genius whom the activities of these fanatical eugenists would have rendered impossible, it must surely have been Rousseau.
The Eugenists believe in educating women for motherhood, and in protecting them from conditions which interfere with that important function of their life.
The Eugenists have been actively concerned with the question of the prevention of the transmission of undesirable qualities to offspring.
The Eugenists also have called the attention of the thinking public to the danger of deaf-and-dumb persons transmitting their condition to their offspring.
Perhaps no subject has aroused the active Eugenists to a greater pitch of indignation than the ascertained results of the effect upon offspring of parents addicted to the over-indulgence in alcohol.
The Eugenists also believe in educating the father, or prospective father.
The Eugenists know that much of the talk concerning Race Suicide is not only futile and uncalled for, but is also in a sense misleading and actually dangerous.
The Eugenists earnestly advocate laws and public opinion tending to protect mothers and expectant mothers.
Eugenists deplore the haphazard way in which children are so often conceived.
The Eugenists also place great importance upon the prevention of insane persons becoming parents.
The only difference is that the Puritans make dignified, and the Eugenists somewhat amusing, statues.
I will not deal here in any detail with the fact that some Eugenists have in our time made the maniacal answer that the police ought to control marriage and birth as they control labor and death.
Of course, our modern eugenists will disclaim any wish to adopt such measures as are here hinted at, which are in every way dangerous and detestable.
Like most of our social idealists, statesmen, politicians and economists, some of the Eugenists suffer intellectually from a restricted and inhibited understanding of the function of sex.
But among the writings of the representative Eugenists one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails.
As a matter of fact, Birth Control has been accepted by the most clear thinking and far seeing of the Eugenists themselves as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.
All these things the Eugenists sees and points out with a courage entirely admirable.
The most practical eugenists of our age are the men who are solving the problems of living in the country and thus keeping more and better people under rural conditions where their families will survive.
Without abandoning the appeal to reason, eugenists must make every effort to enlist potent emotional forces on their side.
But none of them, we believe, is a serious objection to anything which the great body of eugenists proposes to do.
We are not called on to discuss them from a hygienic point of view; but we believe that it is a mistake for eugenists to let legislation of this sort be anything but a minor achievement, to be followed up by more efficient legislation.
Persons of this character are to be regarded by eugenists as distinctly desirable husbands or wives.
Eugenists are charged with ignoring the fact of economic determinism, the fact that a man's acts are governed by economic conditions.
It confirms the belief of eugenists that even under present economic circumstances the birth-rate of the superior classes might be raised appreciably by a campaign of eugenic education.
Eugenists hope to arrive at the same result, not by the death-rate but by the birth-rate.
Eugenists can feel no sympathy for a doctrine which is so completely at variance with the facts of human nature.
But this argument assumes that most mulatto births are illegitimate,--a condition which eugenists do not sanction, because it tends to disintegrate the family.
This principle of socialism is invariably accompanied by numerous associated principles, and it is on these associated principles, not on the fundamental principle, that eugenists and socialists come into conflict.
This form of campaign, although usually calling itself eugenic, has been due far less to eugenists than to sex hygienists who have chosen to sail under a borrowed flag.
In practice, the problem will undoubtedly have to be attacked by eugenists on both sides.
This, indeed, is one of the great lessons of biography which some eugenists have forgotten.
No reference is made in the following pages, for instance, to the law of ancestral inheritance, formulated by the Master to whom the volume is dedicated and of whom all eugenists are the followers.
On the other side of the eugenists stand those whom we may for short call the Nietzscheans.
Sooner or later, eugenists must face the transmissible infections, and repudiate as hideous and devilish the so-called morality which discountenances any attempt to save unborn innocence from a nameless fate.
The so-called social diseases, over which eugenists raise such a pother, are surely not the worst curses that mankind has to bear.
I am an optimist because I am an evolutionist, and because I believe, as every one of those whom I call Eugenists must, that the best is yet to be.
In practical eugenics,--though sooth to say when eugenics begins to become practical many professing eugenists seem to think that it is wandering from the point--the great fact of expectant motherhood must be reckoned with.
The eugenists may well challenge those who urge merely this kind of objection to show that the losses thus pointed out are great enough to offset the gains, in the very same direction, which they regard their program as promising.
Voluntary work on the part of enthusiastic Eugenists would soon succeed in obtaining information of great value.
The objection (which Eugenists share with the majority of the American public) to anything remotely resembling infanticide must have some definite proof of its sincerity.
Eugenists have wrestled against difficulties like Hercules in the Augean stable or Paul in the Ephesian arena.
Eugenists denounce the New Decalogue of current morality which says: "Thou shalt not kill,--but needs not strive Officiously to keep alive.
The views uttered here, while I think they would be largely shared by Eugenists as a whole, are more or less personal to the writer who alone is responsible for their statement.
The powers of the State must not be invoked in the face of popular protest, it will be to the interests of Eugenists that such protest shall be able to express itself in the ballot-box instead of by surreptitious evasion or mob-law.
Eugenists object to weakening virility by sacrificing fitness for mere numbers, but it is in the essence of their demand that the race shall, "increase and multiply and replenish the earth.
Valuable experiments are delayed by prejudice, and Eugenists have only too good ground for complaint that the scientific spirit is thwarted by prejudiced opposition to new ideas.
Eugenists are willing to concede that divorce should be cheap, easy and free from shameful scandal.
American Eugenists will never rest until our race becomes the fittest on earth.
Eugenists do not want the law altered, but they want the added deterrent of reason.
Eugenists as such have no special remedy for the present day criminality.
The marriage of the unfit is the concern of the Eugenists primarily because deception on either side may lead to terrible evil.
Fothergil Finch says that's where the Eugenistsfall down.
In any case, however, the eugenists must depend upon the mass of the mediocre for a supply of geniuses and those of exceptional talent and depend upon the process of reproduction for securing that supply.
In our own country, eugenistsmay be comforted to learn, it is still fashionable to marry, even in the best families.
The demand of the eugenists that such, if obviously defective, should be prevented from bringing forth after their kind is clearly the only social wisdom.
When the eugenists list their double columns of those whom humanity takes pride in and those of whom humanity is ashamed it is most often from the degenerative or defective members of society that the second list is taken.
But even if I yelled out a credo when the Eugenists had me on the rack, I should not know what creed to yell.
It is not really difficult to sum up the essence of Eugenics: though some of the Eugenists seem to be rather vague about it.
We should be learned Eugenists if we were allowed to know half as much of their heredity as we are of their hairdressing.
I do mean that the leading Eugenists write as if this challenge had never been offered.
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