Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster.

  • Schuster, Edgar.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    234 EUGENICS by putting the choice of a mate rather in the hands of men than of women. Among the professional classes the movement has encouraged the spread of higher education among women. This appears to have led to decreased fertility among some of the most capable—a result probably not due to any decline of physiological capacity, but to the * spinster influence' in education. SUMMARY OF CHAPTER The birth-rate and death-rate are con¬ sidered, first, as agencies which may have an international significance in bringing about changes in the numerical relation between different nationalities and the population of the world. Considering individual nations separately, their character may be altered either by the relative increase of some of the racial elements comprising them, or by the more rapid multiplication of particular social classes. Certain researches illustrating these points are described. The selective action of disease, war, and infantile mortality are next treated, and, finally, reference is made to marriage-rates and sexual selection.