What is eugenics? / by Leonard Darwin.

  • Leonard Darwin
Date:
1932
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    OUK SURROUNDINGS 15 those children with superior opportunities would out¬ number those less fortunately situated. In such circum¬ stances, social contact woiild continually tend to raise the level of the whole nation. Moreover, if the families of the poor were to be smaller, other good results would follow. Much misery would thus be saved. Taxation would be lessened because there would be less pauperism. On the other hand, larger families amongst the well-to-do would result in a wider and, there¬ fore, more even distribution of wealth. For all these reasons, there would be less discontent and less political animosity. This again would improve the industrial situation, and consequently lead to a higher standard of living аП round. Thus we see that, when looking only to the more immediate effects of human siu^roundings, all the advantages mentioned in this and the preceding paragraph would be felt if, for example, day labourers had smaller families and artizans and the well-to-do generally had more children. And in the following chapters we shall see that it is also in this direction that we should move if we wish to improve the actual breed of the race. All social re¬ formers ought to be able to co-operate in the promotion of reforms aiming at these results.
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