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EUGENICS (from the Gr. euyevits, well...

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUGENICS (from the Gr. euyevits, well See also:born)  , the See also:modern name given to the See also:science which deals with the influences which improve the inborn qualities of a See also:race, but more particularly with those which develop them to the utmost See also:advantage, and which generally serves to disseminate knowledge and encourage See also:action in the direction of perpetuating a higher racial See also:standard . The founder of this science may be said to be See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Galton (q.v.), who has done much to further its study, not only by his writings, but by the See also:establishment of a See also:research fellowship and scholarship in See also:eugenics in the university of See also:London . The aim of the science as laid down by Galtori is to bring as many influences as can reasonably be employed, to cause the useful classes in the community to contribute more than their proportion to the next See also:generation . It can hardly be said that the science has advanced beyond the See also:stage of disseminating a knowledge of the See also:laws of See also:heredity, so far as they are surely known, and endeavouring to promote their further study . Useful See also:work has been done in the compilation of See also:statistics of the various conditions affecting the science, such as the rates with which the various classes of society in See also:ancient and modern nations have contributed in civic usefulness to the See also:population at various times, the See also:inheritance of ability, the influences which affect See also:marriage, &c . See also:Works by Galton bearing on eugenics are: Hereditary See also:Genius (2nd ed., 1892), Human See also:Faculty (1883), Natural Inheritance (1889), See also:Huxley Lecture of the Anthropol . Inst. on the Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under the existing Conditions of See also:Law and Sentiment (1901); see also Biometri.ka (a See also:journal for the statistical study of biological problems, of which the first See also:volume was published in 1902) .

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