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... begun to know scientifically , he has found himself also , better than before , able to predict ; he has gained the power to control . This increase in power to control has only whetted an appetite which appears ix EXPLANATORY NOTE ...
... begun to know scientifically , he has found himself also , better than before , able to predict ; he has gained the power to control . This increase in power to control has only whetted an appetite which appears ix EXPLANATORY NOTE ...
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... able consciously / to direct the processes of improvement of his racial qualities in any way comparable to the control exer- cisable by experimental breeders of plants and animals , they feel that through the scientific study of ...
... able consciously / to direct the processes of improvement of his racial qualities in any way comparable to the control exer- cisable by experimental breeders of plants and animals , they feel that through the scientific study of ...
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... able than by the old methods . By these methods our knowledge of heredity in plants and animals has enor- mously increased ; new laws , new points of view have been gained and new methods of analysing data have been acquired . As a ...
... able than by the old methods . By these methods our knowledge of heredity in plants and animals has enor- mously increased ; new laws , new points of view have been gained and new methods of analysing data have been acquired . As a ...
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... able to react otherwise than their mothers . Why must we start an expensive campaign to keep alive those who , were they intelligent enough , might well curse us for having intervened in their behalf ? Is not death na- ture's great ...
... able to react otherwise than their mothers . Why must we start an expensive campaign to keep alive those who , were they intelligent enough , might well curse us for having intervened in their behalf ? Is not death na- ture's great ...
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... able to recognise them as such , by inspection . We take them into our communities and , as servants , even into our homes , when we would not take those of our own town of whose bad breeding we are aware . The eu- genics programme can ...
... able to recognise them as such , by inspection . We take them into our communities and , as servants , even into our homes , when we would not take those of our own town of whose bad breeding we are aware . The eu- genics programme can ...
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Eugenics Morton Arnold Aldrich,William Herbert Carruth,Charles Benedict Davenport No preview available - 2015 |
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ability acquired characters acter alcoholic animals better birth breeding C. B. Davenport cent char child civilised classes criminals Davenport determiner disease dominant dysgenic effect environment epilepsy epileptic eugenics movement Eugenics Record Office eugenist evidence eyes fact factors favour feeble-minded Francis Galton future genics germ cells germ plasm hereditary heredity heritance human hybrid ideals imbeciles importance improvement individual influence inheritance insane institutions intellect Kallikak Kallikak family Karl Pearson less living marriage marry mating matter means Mendelian Mendelian law ment method mother nature negative eugenics neuropathic normal nurture offspring ovum parenthood parents pauperism persons physical population possible practical present problem produce protoplasm public opinion qualities question race racial realisation recessive recognised religion reproduction result segregation selection selective breeding social society sterilization superior tion traits transmission transmitted true unfit unit characters vasectomy women young
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Page 185 - Fool! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.
Page 185 - Not on the vulgar mass Called " work," must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Page 319 - ONE lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity — Of toil unsevered from tranquillity; Of labor, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry.
Page 184 - His victories are by demonstration of superiority, and not by crossing of bayonets. He conquers, because his arrival alters the face of affairs. ' " O lole ! how did you know that Hercules was a god ? " " Because," answered lole, " I was content the moment my eyes fell on him. When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle, or at least guide his horses in the chariot-race ; but Hercules did not wait for a contest ; he conquered whether he stood, or walked, or sat, or whatever...
Page 308 - ... institution, to examine the mental and physical condition of such inmates as are recommended by the institutional physician and board of managers. If, in the judgment of this committee...
Page 64 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Page 187 - The latest gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. "Know thyself": long enough has that poor "self" of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to "know" it, I believe! Think it not thy business, this of knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like a Hercules! That will be thy better plan. It has been written, "an endless significance lies in Work...
Page 83 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Page 185 - The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And Longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the portal ; Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make...
Page 187 - Consider how, even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony, the instant he sets himself to work!