Eugenics in race and state.

  • International Congress of Eugenics
Date:
1923
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    376 WILLIAM MCDOUGALL researches made in different parts of England and America by independent experts, using different methods of gauging intelligence and social standing and using a variety of statistical methods, concur in finding a well-marked positive correlation between superior native intelligence (or innate intellectual capacity) and superior social status. The conclusion that such correlation is a general fact (in England and America at least) is very strongly indicated. The conclusion is very distasteful to almost all philanthropically and demo¬ cratically minded persons and will be resisted to the last ditch. If this paper should stimulate some of those who are inclined to resist it to prose¬ cute exact research instead of repeating benevolent platitudes, it will not have been written in vain.