Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics

In its form of what we have called _negative_ eugenics, the practice of our principle would assuredly reduce to an incalculable extent the amount of human defect, mental and phy...

In the first chapter of our second Part, which deals with the practice of eugenics, there were introduced, defined, and briefly illustrated, the terms _positive eugenics_ and _n...

It is true that education can seem to accomplish miracles; that in a single generation the results of an ideal education would be amazing. It is true, also, that in certain epoc...

The reader will not expect to be insulted here with any discussion of the garbage and gossip, records of scoundrels, courts and courtesans, battles, murder and theft, which we w...

“We cannot but feel that the application of biological results is _only beginning_, and beginning with a tardiness which is a reproach to human foresight. There can be no doubt...

=Historical evidence of control of marriage: Westermarck's evidence.=--To begin with the most recent refutation of the doctrine that marriage selection is uncontrollable, one ma...

Whereas, in its beginning, _mind_, or the psychical in all its aspects, was merely a useful property of _body_, all organic progress may be conceived in terms of a change in thi...

“This last lustrum has enabled us to make an astounding discovery, of which neither Adam Smith nor Cobden nor Malthus dreamed--that a nation is composed not of property nor of p...

Before looking more closely than we are commonly apt to do at the meaning of the phrases “natural selection” and “survival of the fittest,” let us exercise the right of man the...

This book will be mere foolishness to those who repeat the inhuman and animal cry that we have to take the world as we find it--the motto of the impotent, the forgotten, the cow...

“I hold that the two crowning and most accursed sins of the society of this present day are the carelessness with which it regards the betrayal of women, and the brutality with...

We must not be misled by such a case as that of the multiplication of rabbits in Australia. Apart from such circumstances as human interference, the earth is already crammed wit...

“It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but except in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ign...

=The laws of multiplication.=--Implicit or explicit approval of a falling birth-rate involves opposition to the opinion of the man in the street, the general opinion of the medi...

Our present concern is the relation of marriage to race-culture, and for this purpose we must investigate an epoch ages before the institution of human marriage, ages before man...

(1) “If the various checks specified in the two last paragraphs, and perhaps others as yet unknown, do not prevent the reckless, the vicious, and otherwise inferior members of s...

The term racial poisons teaches us to distinguish, amongst substances known to be poisonous to the individual, those which injure the germ-plasm: and amongst substances poisonou...

CHAPTER PAGE 1. Introductory 1 2. The Exchequer of Life 17 3. Natural Selection and the Law of Love 35 4. The Selection of Mind 52 5. The Multiplication of Man 71 6. The Growth...

11. Negative Eugenics 171 12. Selection through Marriage 184 13. The Racial Poisons: Alcohol 205 14. The Racial Poisons: Lead, Narcotics, Syphilis 246 15. National Eugenics: Rac...