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Updated: May 17, 2025
A natural science which, if any comparisons are possible, may outweigh all others in importance to the race, is the rising one of "eugenics," the improvement of the human race by controlling the production of its offspring.
Of recent years, many books and articles have been devoted to the advocacy of eugenic methods. Mention may be made, for instance, of Population and Progress , by Montague Crackanthorpe, President of the Eugenics Education Society. See also, Havelock Ellis, "Eugenics and St. Valentine," Nineteenth Century and After, May, 1906.
I realize that this statement is likely to be disputed by those biologists who see in eugenics only the possibility of controlling heredity so as to propagate better strains of humans, just as breeders of plants and animals have produced better domesticated varieties.
The Adolf Scherer of that day though it is not so long ago as time flies was even more solid and impressive than the man he afterwards became, when he reached the dizzier heights from which he delivered to an eager press opinions on politics and war, eugenics and woman's suffrage and other subjects that are the despair of specialists. Had he stuck to steel, he would have remained invulnerable.
Now it is perfectly true that this aversion may have acted eugenically; and so had a certain ultimate confirmation and basis in the laws of procreation. But there really cannot be any Eugenist quite so dull as not to see that this is not a defence of Eugenics but a direct denial of Eugenics.
Karl Pearson and other devotees of the cult of Eugenics have been lately impressing on the public by pamphlets, lectures, and addresses the great importance of nature as compared with nurture, maintaining that the latter is powerless to counteract either the good or bad qualities of the former, and that the effects of nurture are not transmitted to the next generation.
Sylvia looked into her face, so full of malice, and knew two things in a flash: First, it really had been Frank Shirley riding by; and second, Mrs. Armistead had seen him! "Another candidate for your eugenics class!" said the lady. Sylvia glanced at the young people and made sure they were paying no attention.
Galton considered that eugenics must become a factor of religion and be regarded as a sacred and virile creed, while Ellen Key holds that the religions of the past must be superseded by a new religion which will be the awakening of the whole of humanity to a consciousness of the "holiness of generation."
Castration as a Method of Controlling Procreation Negative Eugenics and Positive Eugenics The Question of Certificates for Marriage The Inadequacy of Eugenics by Act of Parliament The Quickening of the Social Conscience in Regard to Heredity Limitations to the Endowment of Motherhood The Conditions Favorable to Procreation Sterility The Question of Artificial Fecundation The Best Age of Procreation The Question of Early Motherhood The Best Time for Procreation The Completion of the Divine Cycle of Life.
One final word may be added on the relation of this subject to Eugenics, to which this pen and voice have been for many years devoted. The subject of venereal disease is one of which we Eugenists, like the rest of the world, fight shy; yet just because the rest of the world does so, we should not.
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