Category: History - Other
INTRODUCTORY. PAGE Muscle and Brain versus Political Organisation--The Muscles and Brains of a Race are not bound to decay--The Fall of Greek and Roman Political Organisation--The Permanence of the Scandinavian and Jewish Types--Possible Racial Degeneration in Spain--Our Power...
INTRODUCTORY. PAGE Muscle and Brain versus Political Organisation--The Muscles and Brains of a Race are not bound to decay--The Fall of Greek and Roman Political Organisation--T...
2. CHAPTER II.Lamarck’s View on Heredity--Darwin’s Law of Selection--Three Ideas involved in Selection--Selection is a Fact, not a Theory--How much is explainable by Selection?--Galton and We...
3. CHAPTER III.Modern Care for the Individual--Preventive Medicine--Micro-organisms of Diseases and their Extermination--The Reproductive Cells as a Rule unaffected by them--Man has been selec...
4. CHAPTER IV.Nerve Derangements, Insanity--The Importance of preventing its Transmission--Marriages of Insane Persons--Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a Sign of Mental Instability--Drink...
5. CHAPTER V.Crime is often an Acquired Habit--The Innate Criminal--The Jukes Family--Intermarriage does not stamp out Criminal Tendencies--Segregation of the Criminal an Ultimate and Effect...
6. CHAPTER VI.Competition of Brain against Brain--Does the Race show Increased Brain Capacity?--The Neolithic compared with the Modern English Skulls--Abeyance of Brain Development since Neol...
7. CHAPTER VII.Are the More Capable Relatively Sterile?--If so, we are Breeding from our Incapables--Capable and Ambitious Men Marry Late in Life--Many Unmarried Persons among Upper Classes--L...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Are we prepared to carry out Selective Methods?--Rights of the Individual, and Obligations to the Community--Rights of Children and our Obligation to them--Our Sense of Obligati...
9. CHAPTER I.In the history of the world, nations have arisen from comparative obscurity, have occupied positions of eminence and power, and have then sunk into obscurity again. The Egyptian...
10. CHAPTER II.Before the simultaneous publication in 1858 by Darwin and Wallace of their “Law of Natural Selection,” biologists believed in the Lamarckian view of heredity, a notable follower...
11. CHAPTER III.In the last chapter we saw that while selection is an evident and powerful factor in the production of racial change, there is but slight and in many cases questionable evidence...
12. CHAPTER IV.We saw in the preceding chapter that during quite recent years the dangers of early life have been greatly lessened because of our increased knowledge of infantile hygiene, and...
13. CHAPTER V.We have seen in the last two chapters that there is every reason to believe that, on account of improved external conditions, and notably of the sanitary advances which result f...
14. CHAPTER VI.In the last chapter we had evidence enough that in human societies, just as in the animal world, a very keen struggle is going on. This struggle is seen on a colossal scale when...
15. CHAPTER VII.We saw, in the last chapter, that in social communities the struggle of one individual with another for wealth and power is not a fair and open contest, but that all are more or...
16. chapter xiv.17. CHAPTER VIII.I do not feel that this is an alarmist view of the question, even though it points in the direction of both the physical and intellectual degeneration of our countrymen. It is a...