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 45 very opposite of a recluse. He had ample opportunities and the power for making fri'înds of all the men of distinction in his day, and he used them to the full. He attached great importance to the opinions of his friends, and consulted them freely about his scientific undertakings. He must be regarded as a man with a knowledge of men and things far beyond the ordinary, eminently receptive and inventive, and always in touch with life at a thousand points. His intellect was quite unclouded up till his death in 1911. He was no mere benevolent constructor of Utopias, but a man whose exceptional originality of mind was always guided by an equally remarkable experience of human nature and life. As has been previously stated, Galton gave utterance to his earliest views on Eugenics in 1865, in two articles published in Mac' millares Magazine, Writing in 1908, he says ; * They expressed then, as clearly as I can do now, the leading principles of Eugenics.* He again referred to the question in his book on Human Faculty^ in 1884, and there the word Eugenics was first intro¬ duced in describing as follows some of the objects of the work. 'Its intention is to touch on various topics more or less connected with that of cultiva¬ tion of race, or as we might call it, with Eugenic'* questions.*