Eugenics in race and state.

  • International Congress of Eugenics
Date:
1923
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    418 A. В. WOLFE subordinate acquisitiveness and combativeness to social workmanship and constructive, purposive, and sympathetic social cooperation for broad, tolerant, and forward-looking social ends. In default of a profound change in our social attitudes not all the intellectual education and development in the world can make the great Society workable in the service of worthy human purposes. Ultimately some artificial direction of social selection, especially of assortative mating, will be called for, but before that, the press¬ ing task, and the only practical way of shifting our social attitudes, lies in a much more adequately supported, a better conceived, and a much more socially functional education than we have as yet begun to approach.