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)
Credit: Prometheus, or, biology and the advancement of man / by H.S. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PROMETHEUS fruits. Once a good combination of genes is obtained, it is preserved and propagated unchanged. This is what the eugenicist desires to do in man. But in man and other higher animak no combination is permanent. None ever lasts beyond the life time of the single individual. No individual can be multiplied in such a way as to retain the same combination of genes. No matter how vigorous, how well adapted to the conditions, how valuable from every point of view, every combination must disintegrate and a differently constituted one must appear for the next generation. The new one may be less vigorous, less valuable in every way, but it must appear in place of the old one. Indeed, the outstanding individuals, the geniuses, are always rare special com- [.84]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18032576_0087.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
