Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings.
- Herbert Spencer Jennings
- Date:
- [1925]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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![PROMETHEUS senses, power of learning, power of reasoning—^all depend, other things being equal, on the strands that are present. Thus we find that, in all organisms, some of these combinations produce fruits that are better fitted to the prevailing conditions of life than are others. Some in man are vigorous, sensible, efficient, valuable to them¬ selves and others. Others are defective, weak, foolish, worthless, injurious to themselves and to others. What the eugenecist desires to do is to save, propagate and multiply the good com¬ binations, letting the poor ones dis¬ appear. In the lower animals and plants there is what might be called a special device for carrying out precisely and regularly this eugenic problem. Any one of the [82]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18032576_0085.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
