Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster.

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

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    EUGENICS 235 CHAPTER XI social conthol, and suggestions for a practical policy The practical measures by which Eugenic principles may be applied are sometimes divided into two classes, called respectively positive and negative. Positive Eugenics aims at securing the multiplication of those individuals who are inherently above the average in physical, mental, and moral qualities. Negative Eugenics aims at pre¬ venting increase of the stocks from which persons inferior in these respects may be expected to be derived. This classification is open to a good deal of criticism, and the words positive and negative are hardly well chosen. The measures sometimes advocated under the hí-ading of negative Eugenics are generally of a more positive description than any which could reasonably be suggested in the other category, and much that is most feasible in the proposals for an Eugenie policy cannot be entered in either class. For example, by the teaching of sexual hygiene and the promulgation of sane ideals in respect to marriage and procreation, it is endeavoured at the same time to secure that the maximum number of children shall be raised and reared