What is eugenics? / by Leonard Darwin.

  • Leonard Darwin
Date:
1932
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    PREFACE TTTFi word Eugenics now often occurs in the news¬ papers, and there must be some who are asking, What is Eugenics ? What is it all about ? In the following pages an attempt is made to answer these questions in the fewest possible words. For the sake of brevity, a dogmatic tone has been adopted, all such expressions as I believe, I think, being omitted. Perhaps I may say that the arguments in favour of the views here set forth are stated at much greater length in my book on The Need for Eugenic Reform (Murray; 1926). Also that this is a subject which has been in my thoughts for more than half a century, and that during the last seventeen years of that period, whilst I have been President of the Eugenics Society, it has been my constant study. Condensed writing is necessarily hard reading. If the reader would read only one chapter a night, and read it three times over, it might have a greater effect than reading a more verbose book three times the length and much more than three times as expensive. L. D. Augusti 1928. V