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EUGENICS (from the Gr. euyevits, well born)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 885 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EUGENICS (from the Gr. euyevits, well born) , the modern name given to the science which deals with the influences which improve the inborn qualities of a race, but more particularly with those which develop them to the utmost advantage, and which generally serves to disseminate knowledge and encourage action in the direction of perpetuating a higher racial standard. The founder of this science may be said to be Sir Francis Galton (q.v.), who has done much to further its study, not only by his writings, but by the
establishment
  of a research fellowship and scholarship in eugenics in the university of London. The aim of the science as laid down by Galtori is to bring as many influences as can reasonably be employed, to cause the useful classes in the community to contribute more than their proportion to the next generation. It can hardly be said that the science has advanced beyond the stage of disseminating a knowledge of the
laws
  of heredity, so far as they are surely known, and endeavouring to promote their further study. Useful
work
  has been done in the compilation of
statistics
  of the various conditions affecting the science, such as the rates with which the various classes of society in ancient and modern nations have contributed in civic usefulness to the population at various times, the
inheritance
  of ability, the influences which affect
marriage
 , &c.
Works by Galton bearing on eugenics are: Hereditary Genius (2nd ed., 1892), Human Faculty (1883), Natural
Inheritance
  (1889), Huxley Lecture of the Anthropol. Inst. on the Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under the existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment (1901); see also Biometri.ka (a
journal
  for the statistical study of biological problems, of which the first volume was published in
1902).


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