Eugenics / by Edgar Schuster.

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

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    52 EUGENICS a permanent staff under the special superin¬ tendence of Mr H. H. Laughlin, the general direction of which is in the hands of Dr Davenport. The principal work of the office is the collection of pedigrees intended to elucidate the laws governing the inheritance of special mental and physical qualities in man. That the idea of Eugenics has spread almost too rapidly among certain sections of the American public is shown by the passing of many laws of a rather hasty and ill- considered kind—a process for which the American Constitution appears particularly well adapted. In Germany the aims of Eugenics are pursued under the title of Race Hygiene, which means the promotion of agencies for the betterment of future generations, different from, but analogous with, hygienic measures for the betterment of the existing generation. The German Society for Race Hygiene is grouped with societies having similar objects in other countries to form an International Association, which thus defines its aims Fi¬ ENDS AND MEANS (i.) The International Association for Race Hygiene aims at promoting the theory and practice of Race Hygiene among white races. * Translated from 4 Bericht der Internationalen Gesell¬ schaft für Rassen-Hygiene. 1909.