The next age of man / by Albert Edward Wiggam.

  • Albert E. Wiggam
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[1927]
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Credit: The next age of man / by Albert Edward Wiggam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION This book is the outcome of a telegram that I re ceived on one occasion from Dean Carl E. Seashore, asking me to deliver an address on ' ' Some Aspects of Eugenics to the Graduate School of the University of Iowa. The address had the good fortune to be kindly received by the scientific men present. At the urgent suggestion of a number of friends I have rather reluctantly enlarged the discussion into a book. This does not mean that all of my scientific friends have agreed with its major premises. They have not. They have, however, believed that I had presented some aspects of man's probable future on this earth which merited more extended discussion. Hence this book. If I am wrong, no praise from friends or critics will make me right ; if I am right, no adverse criticism will make me wrong. The effort to improve man's organic constitution is the most difficult and complex problem to which human intelligence has ever addressed itself. It would, therefore, not be surprising if, during the first one or two hundred years, we should all be wrong. As long, however, as men seek the truth by critical methods, instead of by mystical contemplation, the truth will ultimately come out of their very errors. Should this entire volume be wrong, it will never theless be of service in getting that much of the dis cussion out of the way, and making its error manifest. Eugenical truth is the highest truth men will ever know. The climax of all natural processes is the evolu tion of man. And if man can, by the use of the intelligence which that evolution has given him, aid in
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