Eugenics, euthenics and love : how they go hand in hand / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.

Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Eugenics, euthenics and love : how they go hand in hand / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In a word, the great menace of the moment is. not race suicide but race repletion. And, as we have seen, it is the less desirable- members of the race who are most prolific. Hence the human garden is in danger of being choked with human weeds. There is eminent need of cultivation akin to that which Mr. Burbank prac- tises when he would improve a race of plants in-. stead of allowing them to run wild and deterior- - ate. Yet, as we said before, it must be admitted that at the present stage of social development no- very definite remedies, on the side of positive eu- genics, can be suggested as capable of immediate: application. The most that can be hoped, per- haps, is that knowledge of the laws of heredity may be spread broadcast, until the average intelli- gent citizen is sufficiently informed to have logi- cal opinions on this most important topic. When the time comes that a larger number of cultivated men and women have as comprehensive a knowl- edge of heredity as is now possessed by a small number of breeders of plants and special types of domesticated animals; and when the public at. large realizes that the same laws of heredity apply to man as to all his fellow beings, we shall be pre--. pared to consider the possibility of measures look-- ing to the betterment of the human breed through [21]
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