What is eugenics? / by Leonard Darwin.

  • Leonard Darwin
Date:
1932
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    MAN'S ANCESTORS 9 This is the process which has been called evolution by natural selection. This is how, in my opinion, the changes which are known to have taken place in animals in the course of past ages have been brought about. Some scientists do not attach quite as much importance as this to natural selection : all of them, however, hold that it has had great effects in the past. And all agree, therefore, that if selection can now be apphed to the human race, in a somewhat similar manner, it will have wonderful effects on future generations. A behef in evolution opens out before our eyes possibilities of almost unlimited improvement in the lot of mankind in the distant future. We are also thus led to see that those who care for the future welfare of their country should make it one of their main aims to attend to the breed of their race. And eugenics tells us in what ways we can do this. в