Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster.

  • Schuster, Edgar.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■, ,r V'- '■ > '' Eugenics CHAPTER I introduction Those who seek to introduce a fresh policy into the regulation of human affairs must have clearly before them what end they desire to attain by so doing; and if they wish to commend their policy to the majority, they should be prepared to demon¬ strate that the end itself is desirable, and that by the means proposed there is some hope of moving towards it. There are some who would claim that the ultimate goal of Eugenics is a patriotic one—namely, to increase the commercial and fighting effi¬ ciency of the nation. We do not, however, intend to advocate it on these grounds, but would rather recommend it as a road to increased happiness for the human race; or, at any rate, as a means of preventing much unnecessary misery. Sanitation, education, and the arts of medicine and surgery, to name some of the lines of progress along which mankind has moved during the last century, have