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abstract Année Sociologique Anthropology applied sociology average become Biog biology branches Branford character Charles Booth civic civilisation classification Comte Comte's conception concrete Darwin definite Dict economic endeavour ethical Eugenics existence facts Francis Galton function generalisations give groups heredity household human husband idea ideals important individual influence institutions interest investigation J. M. ROBERTSON Karl Pearson knowledge L. T. HOBHOUSE labour laws London marriage merely method moral nations natural observation organisation paper particular persons philosophy physical population position positive science poverty line practical present primary poverty principles problem Prof Professor Durkheim Professor Geddes Professor Pearson progress psychology question race realised recognise regard relation religion result science of sociology scientific secondary poverty social evolution social phenomena social sciences Sociological Society sociologist specialists Spencer statistics survey systematisation theory tion town unity University various village whole woman women word
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Page 89 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Page 50 - The first and main point is to secure the general intellectual acceptance of Eugenics as a hopeful and most important study. Then let its principles work into the heart of the nation, who will gradually give practical effect to them in ways that we may not wholly foresee.
Page 6 - History is generally admitted to be at once the verification, and the initial form, of the Philosophy of the Progress of Society. If the endeavours now making in all the more cultivated nations, and beginning to be made even in England (usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind...
Page 6 - By its aid we may hereafter succeed not only in looking far forward into the future history of the human race, but in determining what artificial means may be used, and to what extent, to accelerate the natural progress in so far as it is beneficial ; to compensate for whatever may be its inherent inconveniences or disadvantages ; and to guard against the dangers or accidents to which our species is exposed from the necessary incidents of its progression.
Page 75 - What we must fight for is freedom to breed the race without being hampered by the mass of irrelevant conditions implied in the institution of marriage. . . . What we need is freedom for people who have never seen each other and never intend to see each other again to produce children under certain definite public conditions without loss of honor.
Page 155 - On hearing that a man in England could marry but one wife, several ladies exclaimed that they would not like to live in such a country : they could not imagine how English ladies could relish our custom, for, in their way of thinking, every man of respectability should have a number of wives, as a proof of his wealth. Similar ideas prevail all down the Zambesi.
Page 45 - is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage.
Page 47 - Sociological may become, would be somewhat as follows: — 1 . Dissemination of a knowledge of the laws of heredity so far as they are surely known, and promotion of their farther study. Few seem to be aware how greatly the knowledge of what may be termed the actuarial side of heredity has advanced in recent years. The average closeness of kinship in each degree now admits of exact definition and of being treated mathematically, like birth and death-rates, and the other topics with which actuaries...
Page 46 - Society would be very dull if every man resembled the highly estimable Marcus Aurelius or Adam Bede. The aim of Eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilisation in their own way.
Page 151 - Westermarek, who objects to the term "subjection" as a general description of the position of women in the lower races, writes : " Among many of them the married woman, although in the power of the husband, is known to enjoy a remarkable degree of independence, to be treated by him with great consideration, and to exercise no small influence upon him. In several cases she is even stated to be his equal, and in a few his superior.