Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The following Essays are re-printed in the chronological order of their delivery. They will, therefore, help to show something of the progress of Eugenics during the last few years, and to explain my own views upon its aims and methods, which often have been, and still sometim...
The following Essays are re-printed in the chronological order of their delivery. They will, therefore, help to show something of the progress of Eugenics during the last few ye...
2. Part 2────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────┬───┬────┬────┬────┬────┬───┬──────┬──────────── _Per_ 100 Father (or _Mothers_). │ 2 │ 7 │ 16 │ 25 │ 25 │ 16 │ 7 │ 2 │ 100 │...
3. Part 3_Profit and Loss._—The problem to be solved now assumes a clear shape. A child of the X class (whatever X signifies) would have been worth so and so at its birth, and one of eac...
4. Part 4A very typical instance of the power of law over the freedom of choice in marriage, and which was by no means confined to Judæa, is that known as the Levirate. It shows that fam...
5. Part 5The above brief memorandum does not profess to deal with more than the pressing problems in Eugenics. As that science becomes better known, and the bases on which it rests are m...
6. Part 6There can be no doubt that a thorough investigation of the kind described, even if confined to a single grade and to a single form of degeneracy, would be a serious undertaking....
7. Part 7I propose to take the present opportunity of submitting some views of my own relating to that large province of eugenics which is concerned with favouring the families of those...