[43] Mr. G. K. Chesterton, one of the most amusing of contemporary
phenomena, has lately said: “The most serious sociologists, the most
stately professors of eugenics, calmly propose that, ‘for the good
of the race,’ people should be forcibly married to each other by
the police.” Readers unacquainted with Mr. Chesterton's standard of
accuracy and methods of criticism might be misled by this gay invention.
[44] _The Family_, p. 20.
[45] _Encyclopædia Medica_, vol. ii., Article “Deaf-Mutism.”
[46] In a lecture, “The Obstacles to Eugenics,” delivered before the
Sociological Society, March 8, 1909.
[47] Since these words were written there has been passed the
“Prevention of Crimes Act,” which is the first attempt in this country
to apply the elementary truths of the subject in legislation. As an
essentially eugenic proposal it is to be heartily welcomed.
[48] Dr. Bulstrode's Lecture to the Royal Institution, May 15, 1908.
[49] This suggestion, first made by the present writer in March, 1908,
and in the paper referred to on p. 205, is, I believe, to be the
subject of an official enquiry.
[50] _Sociological Papers_ (Macmillan, 1905), p. 3.
[51] “In any scheme of eugenics, energy is the most important quality
to favour; it is, as we have seen, the basis of every action, and it is
eminently transmissible by descent.”--Galton.
[52] _Fortnightly Review_, January, 1908.
[53] “As the German philosopher Schopenhauer remarks, the final aim
of all love intrigues, be they comic or tragic, is really of more
importance than all other ends in human life. What it all turns upon is
nothing less than the composition of the next generation.... It is not
the weal or woe of any one individual, but that of the human race to
come, which is at stake.”--Darwin, _Descent of Man_, p. 893.
[54] _Studies in the Psychology of Sex_, vol. iv. (F. A. Davis Co.,
Philadelphia, 1905).
[55] Part of the matter of this chapter was included in papers entitled
“Racial Hygiene or Negative Eugenics, with special reference to the
Extirpation of Alcoholism,” read before the Congress of the Royal
Institute of Public Health, at Buxton, 1908, and “Alcoholism and
Eugenics,” read before the Society for the Study of Inebriety, April,
1909.
[56] Italics mine.
[57] To-day many of the children who make our destiny are born drunk,
owing to maternal intoxication during labour: I have myself attended
the birth of such children, both in Edinburgh and in York.
[58] This was written in 1892, before the accumulation of the modern
evidence on the subject.
[59] “Alcohol taken into the stomach can be demonstrated in the
testicle or ovary within a few minutes, and, like any other poison,
may injure the sperm or the germ element therein contained. As a
result of this intoxication of the primary elements, children may be
conceived and born who become idiots, epileptics, or feeble-minded.
Therefore it comes about that even before conception a fault may
be present.”--McAdam Eccles, F.R.C.S., in the _British Journal of
Inebriety_, April, 1908.
[60] See p. 111.
[61] London: James Nisbet and Co., 1906.
[62] Will our modern extremists be good enough to remember that Mr.
Galton is the prime author of the doctrine that functionally-produced
modifications are not inherited?
[63] The use of this word thus is unusual, to say the least of it. Dr.
Claye Shaw simply means _causal relation_.
[64] The subject of alcoholism and race-culture really demands a
large volume. There is no space here to detail the fashion in which
the drunken mother poisons her child after birth, when she nurses
it, since, as has been chemically proved, alcohol is excreted in her
milk. Says a most distinguished authority, Mrs. Scharlieb, “the child,
then, absolutely receives alcohol as part of his diet, with the worst
effect upon his organs, for alcohol has a greater effect upon cells
in proportion to their immaturity” (“The Drink Problem,” in the New
Library of Medicine), and Dr. Sullivan refers to “numerous cases on
record of convulsions and other disorders occurring in infants when
the nurse has taken liquor, and ceasing when she has been put on a
non-alcoholic diet.” The reader may be referred to my brief paper,
“Alcohol and Infancy,” published in the form of a tract by the Church
of England Temperance Society.
[65] This is printed in the _British Journal of Inebriety_, January,
1908, under the title “Inebriety, its Causation and Control”--with
comments by numerous authorities.
[66] The author says “inherent defect.” I have omitted the adjective,
as it is obviously misused. _Antecedent_ would have been the better
word, surely.
[67] Italics mine.
[68] Italics mine. A thousand pounds for cure--which does not cure--and
twopence for prevention is, of course, the rule with a half-educated
nation always.
[69] She died in a lunatic asylum. I have not heard that society ever
offered her a public apology for its brutality to her.
[70] See _Times_ report, February 28, 1908.
[71] Report of the Inspector under the Inebriates Acts for the year
1906.
[72] This drinking by women, which means drinking by mothers present,
expectant or possible, is rapidly increasing in Great Britain, though
almost unknown in our Colonies. It is at the heart that Empires rot.
[73] Cd. 4438. Price 4½d. Volume of evidence Cd. 4439. Price 2s.
[74] A careful and detailed enquiry by the present writer, published
in the _Westminster Gazette_ (Nov. 21, 1908), _Daily Chronicle_, and
_Manchester Guardian_, and hitherto unchallenged, showed that, on
the most moderate reckoning, alcohol makes 124 widows and orphans in
England and Wales every day, or more than 45,000 per annum.
[75] _Diseases of Occupation_, by Sir Thomas Oliver. (The New Library
of Medicine, 1908.)
[76] This chapter contains the substance of the author's Friday evening
discourse, entitled “Biology and History,” delivered before the Royal
Institution of Great Britain and Ireland, February 14, 1908. The
substance of two lectures to the Royal Institution, entitled “Biology
and Progress,” and delivered in February, 1907, is also included in the
present volume.
[77] “It is thus everywhere that foolish Rumour babbles not of what
was done, but of what was misdone or undone; and foolish History
(ever, more or less, the written epitomised synopsis of Rumour)
knows so little that were not as well unknown. Attila invasions,
Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Vespers, Thirty-Years' Wars:
mere sin and misery; not work, but hindrance of work! For the Earth,
all this while, was yearly green and yellow with her kind harvests;
the hand of the craftsman, the mind of the thinker rested not: and so,
after all, and in spite of all, we have this so glorious high-domed
blossoming World; concerning which, poor History may well ask, with
wonder, Whence _it_ came? She knows so little of it, knows so much
of what obstructed it, what would have rendered it impossible. Such,
nevertheless, by necessity or foolish choice, is her rule and practice;
whereby that paradox, ‘Happy the people whose annals are vacant,’ is
not without its true side.”--Carlyle, _French Revolution_.
“In a little while it would come to be felt that the true history of
a nation was indeed not of its wars but of its households.”--Ruskin,
_Time and Tide_.
[78] “Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of
demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.”--William Godwin.
[79] See the Author's paper, “The Essential Factor of Progress,”
published in the _Monthly Review_, April, 1906.
[80] Gibbon does not enlighten us much on such vital matters: but my
attention has been called to the following passage, not irrelevant
here. It is from the _Attic Nights_ of Aulus Gellius, Book xii., chap.
i., written about A.D. 150--Gibbon's critical epoch. I use the free
translation of Mr. Quintin Waddington:--
“Once when I was with the philosopher Favorinus, word was brought to
him that the wife of one of his disciples had just given birth to a son.
“‘Let us go,’ said he, ‘to enquire after the mother, and to
congratulate the father.’ The latter was a noble of Senatorial rank.
“All of us who were present accompanied him to the house and went in
with him. Meeting the father in the hall, he embraced and congratulated
him, and, sitting down, enquired how his wife had come through the
ordeal. And when he heard that the young mother, overcome with fatigue,
was now sleeping, he began to speak more freely.
“‘Of course,’ said he, ‘she will suckle the child herself.’ And when
the girl's mother said that her daughter must be spared, and nurses
obtained in order that the heavy strain of nursing the child should
not be added to what she had already gone through, ‘I beg of you, dear
lady,’ said he, ‘to allow her to be a whole mother to her child. Is it
not against nature, and being only half a mother, to give birth to a
child, and then at once to send him away? To have nourished with her
own blood and in her own body a something that she had never seen,
and then to refuse it her own milk, now that she sees it living, a
human being, demanding a mother's care? Or are you one of those who
think that nature gave a woman breasts, not that she might feed her
children, but as pretty little hillocks to give her bust a pleasing
contour? Many indeed of our present-day ladies--whom you are far from
resembling--do try to dry up and repress that sacred fount of the body,
the nourisher of the human race, even at the risk they run from turning
back and corrupting their milk, lest it should take off from the charm
of their beauty. In doing this they act with the same folly as those,
who, by the use of drugs and so forth, endeavour to destroy the very
embryo in their bodies, lest a furrow should mar the smoothness of
their skin, and they should spoil their figures in becoming mothers.
If the destruction of a human being in its first inception, whilst it
is being formed, whilst it is yet coming to life, and is still in the
hands of its artificer, Nature, be deserving of public detestation and
horror, is it not nearly as bad to deprive the child of his proper
and congenial nutriment to which he is accustomed, now that he is
perfected, is born into the world, is a child?
“But it makes no difference--for as they say--so long as the child is
nourished and lives, with whose milk it is done.
“Why does he who says this, since he is so dull in understanding
nature, think it also of no consequence in whose womb and from whose
blood the child is formed and fashioned? For is there not now in
the breasts the same blood--whitened, it is true, by agration and
heat--which was before in the womb? And is not the wisdom of Nature
to be seen in this, that as soon as the blood has done its work of
forming the body down below, and the time of birth has come, it betakes
itself to the upper parts of the body, and is ready to cherish the
spark of life and light by furnishing to the new-born babe his known
and accustomed food? And so it is not an idle belief, that, just as the
strength and character of the seed have their influence in determining
the likeness of the body and mind, so do the nature and properties of
the milk do their part in effecting the same results. And this has
been noticed, not in man alone, but in cattle as well. For if kids are
brought up on the milk of ewes, or lambs on that of goats, it is agreed
that the latter have stiffer wool, the former softer hair. In the case
of timber and fruit trees, too, the qualities of the water and soil
from which they draw their nourishment have more influence in stunting
or augmenting their growth than those of the seed which is sewn, and
often you may see a vigorous and healthy tree when transplanted into
another place perish owing to the poverty of the soil.
“Is it then a reasonable thing to corrupt the fine qualities of
the new-born man, well endowed as to both body and mind so far as
parentage is concerned, with the unsuitable nourishment of degenerate
and foreign milk? Especially is this the case, if she whom you get
to supply the milk is a slave or of servile estate, and--as is very
often the case--of a foreign and barbarous race, if she is dishonest,
ugly, unchaste, or _addicted to drink_. For generally any woman who
happens to have milk is called in, without further enquiry as to her
suitability in other respects. Shall we allow this babe of ours to be
tainted by pernicious contagion, and to draw life into his body and
mind from a body and mind debased?
"This is the reason why we are so often surprised that the children of
chaste mothers resemble their parents neither in body nor character.
“... And besides these considerations, who can afford to ignore or
belittle the fact that those who desert their offspring and send them
away from themselves, and make them over to others to nurse, cut, or at
least loosen and weaken that chain and connection of mind and affection
by which Nature attaches children to their parents. For when the child,
sent elsewhere, is away from sight, the vigour of maternal solicitude
little by little dies away, and the call of motherly instinct grows
silent, and forgetfulness of a child sent away to nurse is not much
less complete than that of one lost by death.
“A child's thoughts and the love he is ever ready to give, are
occupied, moreover, with her alone from whom he derives his food, and
soon he has neither feeling nor affection for the mother who bore him.
The foundations of the filial feelings with which we are born being
thus sapped and undermined, whatever affection children thus brought
up may seem to have for father and mother, for the most part is not
natural love, but the result of social convention.’”
[81] Cf. the similar dicta of Darwin and Pearson (p. 279).
[82] _National Life from the Standpoint of Science_, p. 99.
[83] “Decadence,” Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, by the Rt. Hon.
A. J. Balfour, M.P., delivered at Newnham College, January 25, 1908.
(Cambridge University Press.)
[84] “Restless activity proves the man,” as Goethe says.
[85] _Munera Pulveris_, par. 6.
[86] _The Data of Ethics_, par. 97.
[87] _Hereditary Genius_, Prefatory Chapter to Edition of 1902, pp. x.
and xxvii.
[88] “The Survival-Value of Religion,” _Fortnightly Review_, April,
1906.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Ability, inheritance of, 114
“Acquired characters,” defined, 111
Acquired characters, Lamarckian theory of the transmission of, 283
---- progress, 262
---- ----, dangers of, 265
---- ---- _versus_ natural selection, 266
Acquirements, transmission of, by the art of writing, 261
---- _versus_ inborn characters, 101
Acromegaly, 67
“Adam Bede”, 298
“Adolescence,” by Prof. Stanley Hall, 318
Alcohol, a racial poison, 211, 259
----, an agent of selection, 206
---- and eugenics, 206
----, and heredity, 206
---- and human degeneration, 242
---- and parenthood, 241
----, effects of, on the racial organs, 208, 209 (_note_)
----, elimination by, 206
----, the friends of, 243
---- trade, the, and widows and orphans, 245
“Alcohol and Infancy,” by Dr. Saleeby, 214
“Alcohol and the Human Body,” by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D.
Sturge, 319
Alcoholic Imperialism, 244
Alcoholism and the London County Council, 206
----, both a cause and a symptom of degeneracy, 217
----, parental, its influence on the offspring, 211
“Alcoholism, a Chapter in Social Pathology,” by Dr. W. C. Sullivan,
211, 242, 319
“Alcoholism, a Study in Heredity,” by G. Archdall Reid, 319
Ancestral inheritance, the law of, xiv
Ancestry of men of genius, 152
----, paternal and maternal, of equal importance, 152
Animal life and monogamy, 163
---- marriage, 162
Animals and promiscuity, 163
----, the higher, and monogamy, 163
Army, inferior intelligence of the, to that of the Navy, 98
“Atavism,” defined, 111
“Attic Nights, The,” of Aulus Gellius, 271 (_note_)
Australia, control of drunkards in, 242
“Autobiography” of Herbert Spencer, 58, 152
“Avariés, Les,” by Brieux, 252
Bacteria, domination of, 93
----, rate of increase of, 160
Bibliography of eugenics, 305
---- of racial poisons, 318
---- of transmissible diseases, 318
Biography, as a guide to heredity, 152
----, neglect of ancestral data in, 152
“Biology and History,” by Dr. Saleeby, 254 (_note_)
“Biology, The Principles of,” by Herbert Spencer, 312
Biometrics, the study of, xiii
Birth-rate, falling, eugenic aspect of the, 10
---- in China, 78
---- in Japan, 78
---- of man, 72
----, statistics of, 74
Births, ratio of, of the sexes, 294
“Black Stain, The,” by G. R. Sims, 237, 319
Body, the necessity of the, 53
----, relation of the, to the mind, 52
Brains, breeding for, 54
Breeding for brains, 54
---- for energy, 66
---- for intelligence, 147, 150, 153
---- for motherhood, 145, 146
Celibacy, non-eugenic results of, 116
Census, the uselessness of the, 6, 94
“Century Dictionary, The,” on eugenics, 314
Characters, inborn, _versus_ acquirements, 101
Child-birth, superstition about, 106
Children, eugenics and cruelty to, 295
----, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to, 295
“Children of the Nation, The,” by Sir John Gorst, 319
China, the birth-rate in, 78
----, racial state of, 274
Church, non-eugenic action of the, 116
Civic worth, 68
Civilisation, ideal, 117
Civilisations, the decay of, 255
Cocaine, the racial influence of, 250
“Collectivism, Individualism and,” by Dr. Saleeby, 101 (_note_)
Colour-blindness, _see_ Daltonism
Conception, attitude of eugenics before and after, 30
“Congenital” defined, 105, 112
“Conscientiousness”, 117
Crime, eugenics and, 177
----, theories of, 177
----, treatment of, 178
Criminality and civic worth, 68
“Cry of the Children, The,” by G. R. Sims, 237, 319
Daltonism and heredity, 179
“Dark ages,” caused by the celibacy of the fittest, 116
“Darwinism To-day,” by Vernon L. Kellogg, 312
“Data of Ethics, The,” by Spencer, 302 (_note_)
Deaf-mutism and heredity, 173
Death-rate, a low, the cause of the multiplication of man, 73
----, influence of density of population on the, 75
----, limitation of the, 78
----, statistics of the, 74
Decadence, National, 279
“Decadence,” by A. J. Balfour, 279
“Degeneration,” defined, 25 (_note_)
Degeneration, human, and alcohol, 217, 242
----, racial, 49
“Descent of Man, The,” by Charles Darwin, 171, 191, 197, 279, 311
“Deterioration,” defined, 25 (_note_)
Diminution of offspring, the eugenic value of, 162
Disease, latency of, 108
Diseases, transmissible, bibliography of, 318
“Diseases of Occupation,” by Sir Thomas Oliver, 247 (_note_), 319
“Diseases of Society: The Vice and Crime Problem,” by G. K. Lydston,
318
Domestics, the politics of the future, 33, 285
“Drink Problem, The,” by Fourteen Medical Authorities, 319
“Drink Problem, The,” by Mrs. Scharlieb, 214
Drunkard, influence of the, on the race, 241
----, marriage and parentage of the, 220, 235
----, the habitual, control of, in various countries, 242
----, ----, treatment of, by the London County Council, 39 (_note_),
220-238
Drunkenness, habitual, imprisonment as a treatment for, 218
----, increase of, 218
Early Notification of Births Act, 33
“Economic Classics”, 312
Education, age at which to begin, 125
---- and heredity, 128
---- and inequality, 131
---- and race culture, 120
----, eugenic, 139
---- for parenthood, xii, 138
----, higher, of woman, non-eugenic effects of, xiii, 89
---- in the principle of selection, 137
----, modern, the destruction of mind, 120
----, sexual, of children, 139
----, ----, of girls, 318
----, the limits of, 123
----, the provision of an environment, 12, 125
----, the real functions of, 136
“Education,” by Herbert Spencer, 317
Elephant, birth-rate of the, 72 (_note_)
Emigration, the eugenic evils of, xi
----, a remedy for over-population, 84
Energetic cost of reproduction, the, 87
Energy, breeding for, 66
----, eugenic value of, 291
Environment, education the provision of, 12, 125
----, effects of, 103
----, good, defined, 275
---- and heredity, 126
----, of motherhood, the, 270
Epilepsy, eugenics and, 176
Erect attitude, the, 55
“Essential Factor of Progress, The,” by Dr. Saleeby, 262
Eugenic sense, the creation of a, 144
Eugenics and alcohol, 206
----, bibliography of, 305
---- and conception, 30
---- and crime, 177
---- and cruelty to children, 295
---- and Daltonism, 179
---- and hæmophilia, 179
---- and insanity, 175
----, defined, viii, 315
----, epilepsy and, 176
----, feeble-minded, the, and, 174
----, higher education of woman, and, 89
---- in Germany, 154
----, infant mortality, and, 20
----, international, xi
----, Nietzscheanism and, 28
----, politics and, 118
----, positive and negative, 172
----, present influence of, on marriage, 187
----, religion and, 303
----, the aims of, summarized, 276, 309
----, the classes of society and, 119
----, the length of marriage engagements and, 198
----, the morality of, 303
----, tuberculosis and, 178
----, unemployment and, 293
----, woman and, 294
Eugenics Education Society, the, 222, 229, 230, 299
---- ---- ----, the history and objects of, 139
---- ---- ----, the Inebriates Committee and, 240
---- ---- ----, the reform of drunkards and, 241
“Eugenics as a Factor in Religion,” by F. Galton, 315
“Eugenics, Its Definition, Scope, and Aims,” by F. Galton, 314
“Eugenics, National, Studies in,” by F. Galton, 315
“Eugenics, National, The Scope and Importance to the State of the
Science of,” by Karl Pearson, 315
“Eugenics, Probability the Foundation of,” by F. Galton, 315
“Eugenics, The Obstacles to,” by Dr. Saleeby, 175 (_note_)
Evolution and progress, 48
----, introduction of the term, 48 (_note_)
“Evolution of Marriage, The,” by Prof. Letourneau, 312
“Evolution of Sex, The,” by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson, 312
“Evolution, the Master Key,” by Dr. Saleeby, 147
“Evolution Theory, The,” by August Weismann, 311
Examinations, mental emetics, 121
“Family, The,” by Mrs. Elsie Clews Parsons, 161, 314
Fatherhood, eugenic, importance of, 154
----, individual, 156
Feeble-minded, eugenics and the, 174
----, the London County Council and the, 229
----, the Royal Commission on the, 215, 242
“Fittest,” defined, 43
France, effect of Napoleonic wars on, 284
----, increase of population in, 76
Francis Galton Eugenics Laboratory, the, 315
“French Revolution, The,” by Carlyle, 254 (_note_)
Fulmar petrel, the multiplication of the, 73 (_note_)
Generation, the independence of every, 3
Genesis, individuation and, 87
“Genetics, the Methods and Scope of,” by Prof. W. Bateson, 306
Genius, infertility of, 287, 92
----, the production of, 289
----, the transmission of, 289
----, the value of, to the world, 291
“Genius, British, A Study of,” by Havelock Ellis, 308
“Genius, Hereditary,” by F. Galton, _see_ Hereditary Genius
Germany, eugenics in, 158
----, increase of population in, 76, 77
“Germinal,” defined, 110
Germ-plasm, immortality of the, 256
“Germ-plasm, A Theory of Heredity, The,” by August Weismann, 208, 311
Girls, the sexual education of, 318
Great Britain, increase of population in, 76
Greece, the fall of, 260
Gymnasium _versus_ playing fields, 63
Hæmophilia and heredity, 179
Hampstead, birth-rate of, the lowest in London, 78
“Health, Strength and Happiness,” by Dr. Saleeby, 119 (_note_)
“Hereditary Genius,” by F. Galton, 107, 114, 289, 302 (_note_), 307,
308
Heredity, alcohol and, 206
----, biography a guide to, 152
----, Daltonism and, 179
----, deaf-mutism and, 173
----, education and, 128
----, environment and, 126, 269
----, hæmophilia and, 179
----, obscured by acquired characters, 99
----, race culture and, 99
----, tuberculosis and, 179
“Heredity,” by Prof. J. A. Thomson, 99, 305
“Heredity and Environic Forces,” Dr. T. D. MacDougal on, 212
“Heredity and Selection in Sociology,” by George Chatterton-Hill, 311
“Heredity, Alcoholism, A Study in,” by G. Archdall Reid, 319
“Heredity, The Germ-Plasm, A Theory of,” by August Weismann, 311
“Heredity, The Principles of,” by G. Archdall Reid, 311
“History,” defined, 254
“History of Human Marriage, The,” by E., Westermarck, 312
“History of Matrimonial Institutions, A,” by G. E. Howard, 312
“Human Breed, The Possible Improvement of the, etc.,” by F. Galton,
314
“Human Faculty, Inquiries into,” by F. Galton, 308
Humanitarianism, indiscriminate, 27
Hygiene, individual and racial, 253
----, school, 65
“Hygiene of Mind, The,” by T. S. Clouston, 319
“Hygiene of Nerves and Mind,” by August Forel, 242, 319
Imperialism, alcoholic, 244
----, the old and the new, 33, 34
India as a wheat-producing country, 80
Individual _versus_ race, 256
“Individualism and Collectivism,” by Dr. Saleeby, 101 (_note_)
Individuation and genesis, 87
Inebriates, _see_ Drunkards
---- Act, the, 222, 224, 225, 230
---- ----, reports of the inspector under, 319
---- Committee, the Report of the, 239
Inebriety, _see_ Drunkenness
“Inebriety, Its Causation and Control,” by R. Welsh Branthwaite, 319
Infancy, helplessness of, 3, 147, 148
----, the mind of, 124
----, the, of slum children, 102
“Infancy, Alcohol and,” by Dr. Saleeby, 214
Infant mortality, 19, 97, 104, 150, 207, 257, 294
---- ---- among the Jews, 274
---- ----, eugenics and, 20, 29, 31
---- ----, first public mention of, 33
---- ---- in the east, 76
---- ----, polygamy and, 166
---- ----, reports of the 1908 conference on, 320
---- ----, the war against, 21
“Infant Mortality,” by Dr. George Newman, 86, 319
“Inherent,” defined, 109
Inheritance, pecuniary, non-eugenic influence of, 101
----, _see_ Heredity
“Inquiries into Human Faculty,” by F. Galton, 92, 128, 290, 308
Inquisition, anti-eugenic effects of the, 267
Insanity, “breach of promise” and, 202
----, eugenics and, 175
----, increase of, 176
Instinct, plasticity of, 148, 149
Intelligence, breeding for, 147, 150, 153
----, the creation of, 149
----, nature and, 40
“Intensity of life,” the, 91
“Janus in Modern Life,” by Prof. Flinders Petrie, 22
Japan, birth-rate in, 78
----, the racial development of, 268
Jews, the, alcohol and, 275
---- motherhood and, 274
----, the survival of, 272
“Kingdom of Man, The,” by Sir E. Ray Lankester, 41 (_note_)
Lamarckian theory of heredity, the, 134, 135, 208, 283
---- ---- of racial degeneration, 258, 261
Lead, a racial poison, 247
“Leviathan,” by Hobbes, 106 (_note_)
Licensing Bill of 1908, the, 223, 232-237
Life, the continuity of, 2
London County Council, alcoholism and, 206
---- ---- ----, feeble-minded children and, 229
---- ---- ----, the treatment of inebriates by, 39 (_note_), 220-238
---- Hospital, gift to, 11 (_note_)
Longevity, marriage and, 191
Love, eugenic value of, 70
----, motherhood and, 152
----, survival value of, 51
----, the two stages of, 186
“Making of Character, The,” by Prof. MacCunn, 124
Malaria, a racial poison, 260
“Malaria, A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome,” by
W. H. S. Jones, 260, 282, 319
Man, the denudation and defencelessness of, 58
----, the foundation of Empire, 262
----, the future of, 299
----, the latest product of evolution, 55
----, the multiplication of, 71
“Man and Woman,” by Havelock Ellis, 318
Marriage, animal, 162
----, average age at, 90
----, breach of promise of, and race culture, 201
----, ---- ----, the law of, 202
----, childless, 168
----, contemporary, eugenic value of, 198
----, control of, 184, 186
----, defined, 170
----, engagement of, eugenics and the length of, 198
----, eugenic, 309
----, ----, preparation for, 144
----, ----, utility of, 162, 163, 168
----, happiness in, extent of, 195
----, human, 164
----, inter-racial, xi
----, longevity and, 191
----, “mixed” games and, 196, 197
---- of cousins, xii, 168
---- of the deaf and dumb, 173
----, present influence of, on eugenics, 187
----, procreation, the paramount function of, 158
----, selection for, 189
----, ----, by woman, 194
----, socialism and, 198
----, survival-value of, 164
---- systems, English and French, 199
----, the ball-room and, 196, 197
----, the field of choice in, 195
----, the Income Tax and, 174
----, the, of inebriates, 235
----, the sanctity of, 313
----, unselfish, 144
“Marriage, Human, The History of,” by E., Westermarck, 312
“Marriage, Restrictions in,” by F. Galton, 185, 204, 315
“Marriage, The Evolution of,” by Prof. Letourneau, 312
Married women's labour, 270
“Mass _versus_ mind”, 95
Maternal care, development of, 150
---- impressions, 111
Maternalism, the principle of, 169
Maternity, _see_ Motherhood
“Matrimonial Institutions, A History of,” by G. E. Howard, 312
“Memories of my Life,” by F. Galton, vii, 308
Mendelism, 108, 118, 293
“Methods and Scope of Genetics, The,” by Prof. W. Bateson, 306
Mind, selection of, 52
----, the ascent of, 300
----, the determinator of leadership, 59
----, the master in war, 97
----, the relation of, to the body, 52
---- _versus_ mass, 95
---- ---- muscle, 65
“Mind, The Hygiene of,” by T. S. Clouston, 319
“Mind, Hygiene of Nerves and,” by August Forel, 319
Monogamy, eugenic value of, 165, 170
----, survival-value of, 166
---- the ideal condition, 150
---- the rule among higher animals, 163
Morality, survival-value of, 51
Morphinomania, parental, its influence on the offspring, 212
Motherhood, 169
---- and love, 152
----, breeding for, 145, 146
---- carried on by unskilled labour, 151
---- during the decline of Rome, 270, 271 (_note_)
----, education for, 151
----, history and, 269
----, Jewish, 274
----, psychical, 151, 153
----, the elevation of, 32
----, the environment provided by, 269
----, the evolution of, 149
----, the safeguarding of, 170
----, the subsidisation of, 151
Mothers, school for, 151
Multiplication of man, a low death-rate the cause of, 73
---- ----, the laws of, 86
---- ----, the rate of, 90
---- of the unfit, 189, 279
“Munera Pulveris,” by John Ruskin, 302 (_note_), 320
Muscle, right training of, 62
----, the cult of, 60
---- _versus_ Mind, 65
Muscles, useless, 61
Narcotics, irritant and non-irritant, 251
----, possible racial influence of, 250
“National Life from the Standpoint of Science,” by Karl Pearson, 279,
315
“Natural Inheritance,” by F. Galton, 308
Natural selection, 35 _et seq._
---- ---- and racial degeneration, 260
---- ---- _versus_ acquired progress, 266
Nature, the cruelty of, 38
“Nature,” defined, 110
“Nature of Man, The,” by Metchinkoff, 90
Navy, superior intelligence of the, to that of the Army, 98
“Nemesis of Nations, The,” by W. R. Paterson, 281
New Zealand, control of drunkards in, 242
Nicotine, racial influence of, 251
Nietzscheanism, eugenics and, 28
Nitrogen, the fixation of, 81
“Noteworthy Families”, 114 (_note_)
“Nurture,” defined, 110
“Obstacles to Eugenics, The,” by Dr. Saleeby, 175 (_note_)
Opinion, individual, power of, 138
----, public, the education of, 14, 15
----, the creation of, 138
Opium, possible racial influence of, 251
“Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The,” by George Meredith, 112 (_note_)
“Origin of Species, The,” by Charles Darwin, vii, 73 (_note_), 311
“Origin of Vertebrates, The,” by Dr. W. H. Gaskell, 50 (_note_)
Overcrowding, 20
---- and tuberculosis, 181
---- and unemployment, 293
Parenthood, alcohol and, 241
----, classification of society for, 104 (_note_)
----, education for, xii, 138
----, eugenic power of, 199
---- of inebriates, 220
----, selection for, vii, viii
----, the elevation of, 293, 294
----, the link of life, 3
----, the most desirable, 91
----, the rise of, 161
----, the sanctity of, 138
Parents, selection of, 4
----, proportion of, to population, 4
Paris, hospitals in, 247
Physique, eugenic, importance of, 69
Playing fields _versus_ gymnasia, 63
Politics, defined, 286
----, domestics the future, 33, 285
----, eugenics and, 118
“Politics,” Aristotle's, 167
Polygamy and infant mortality, 166
----, significance of, 165
Population, density of, influence of the, on the death rate, 75
----, increase of, and the food supply, 79
----, ----, emigration a remedy for, 84
----, ----, safe extent of, 93
----, ----, statistics of, 75, 76
----, quantity _versus_ quality of, 93
----, starvation a controller of, 84
----, statistics of, as data for prophecy, 93
----, survival-value of, 90, 91
----, the test of, 95
“Population and Progress,” by Montague Crackanthorpe, 315
“Population, The Principles of,” by T. R. Malthus, 83, 85, 312
“Possible Improvement of the Human Breed, etc.,” by F. Galton, 314
Posterity, our duty to, 10
“Poverty and Hereditary Genius,” by Constable, 308
Prevention of Crimes Act, The, 179 (_note_)
“Prevention of Tuberculosis, The,” by Dr. A. Newsholme, 319
“Principles of Biology, The,” by Herbert Spencer, 86, 312
“Principles of Heredity, The,” by G. Archdall Reid, 311
“Principles of Population, The,” by T. R. Malthus, _see_ “Population,
The Principles of”
“Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics,” by F. Galton, 315
Progress, acquired, _see_ Acquired progress
---- defined, 50, 303
----, evolution and, 48
---- of achievement, and of the race, 4
----, racial and acquired, 262
“Progress, Population and,” by Montague Crackanthorpe, 315
Promiscuity among animals, 163
Public opinion, education of, 14, 15
Quality _versus_ quantity, 293
Race, immortality of, 256
---- _versus_ individual, 256
Race-culture and human variety, 297
----, education and, 120
----, socialism and, 133
----, the promise of, 287
“Race-Culture or Race Suicide,” by R. R. Rentoul, 316
“Race Prejudice,” by Jean Finot, 318
Racial degeneration and natural selection, 260
---- ----, cause of, 263
---- ----, the Lamarckian theory of, 258, 263
---- instinct, education of the, xii
---- poisons, the, x, 246
---- ---- and decadence, 259
---- ----, bibliography of, 318
“Racial poisons,” introduction of the term, 205
“Racial Hygiene or Negative Eugenics,” by Dr. Saleeby, 205
Racial senility, the fallacy of, 256
“Reformatory,” the word, 238
Regression towards mediocrity, the law of, 288
Religion, eugenics and, 303
----, the survival-value of, 303
“Religion, Eugenics as a Factor in,” by F. Galton, 315
Religious persecution, non-eugenic results of, 116, 264
Reproduction, the cost of, in energy, 87
“Republic, The,” of Plato, 166, 313
“Restrictions in Marriage,” by F. Galton, 185, 204, 315
Reversed selection, 265
---- ----, the final cause of racial decay, 264, 266
---- ----, war a cause of, 284
“Reversion,” defined, 111
Rome, the decline of, 281
----, motherhood during the decline of, 270
Russia, increase of population in, 76
---- as a wheat-producing country, 80, 81
“School hygiene”, 65
“Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National
Eugenics, The,” by Karl Pearson, 315
Selection, alcohol an agent in, 206
---- and racial change, 260
---- by marriage, 189
---- for parentage, vii, viii
----, natural, _see_ Natural Selection
---- of mind, 52
---- of woman, for marriage, 189
----, reversed, _see_ Reversed Selection
----, sexual, 67, 190, 197, 202
----, the principle of, education in, 137
“Sex and Society,” by W. I. Thomas, 317
“Sex, The Evolution of,” by Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson, 312
“Sexual Choice”, 314
Sexual education of children, 139
---- ---- of girls, 318
---- selection, 67, 190, 197, 202
“Sexual Selection in Man,” by Havelock Ellis, 202
“Sexuel Frage, Die” (The Sexual Question), by August Forel, 130, 242,
253, 320
Siegfried, the story of, 304
“Social Psychology,” by Dr. McDougall, 117
Socialism and education, 129, 130, 132
---- and marriage, 198
---- and race-culture, 133
---- and selection for marriage, 194
Society, the classification of, and eugenics, 119
----, classification of, for parenthood, 104 (_note_)
“Society, The Diseases of,” by G. F. Lydston, 318
“Society, Sex and,” by W. I. Thomas, 317
“Sociological Papers”, 41, 114 (_note_), 185 (_note_), 279, 289, 314,
315
Sociological Society, the, 275
“Sociology, Heredity and Selection in,” by G. Chatterton-Hill, 311
“Sociology, The Study of,” by Herbert Spencer, 317
Soldiers, mistaken muscular training of, 63
Spain, the racial condition of, 267, 268
“Spontaneous,” defined, 215
Starvation as a controller of population, 84
----, extent of, in England, 82
Stepney, birth-rate of, the highest in London, 78
Sterilization of mental and physical degenerates, 316
Strength _versus_ skill, 62
“Struggle for existence,” the, 42, 83, 280
“Studies in National Eugenics,” by F. Galton, 315
“Studies in the Psychology of Sex”, 202
“Study of British Genius, A,” by Havelock Ellis, 308
“Study of Sociology, The,” by Herbert Spencer, 192, 317
“Survival of the fittest,” the, 43, 49
Survival-value, 46
---- of love, 51
---- of monogamy, 51
---- of population, 90, 91
---- of religion, the, 303
---- of the tape-worm, 47
----, physical _versus_ psychical, 50
“Survival-Value of Religion, The,” by Dr. Saleeby, 303
Syphilis, a racial poison, 252
“Syphilology and Venereal Diseases,” by Dr. C. F. Marshall, 253
Talent, the production of, 290
Tape-worm, survival value of the, 47
Tasmanians, racial disappearance of the, 257
Taubach, the Driftmen of, 59
Temperance legislation, the failure of, 236
“Time and Tide,” by John Ruskin, 96, 131, 254 (_note_), 296, 320
Tobacco and the race, 257
----, influence of, on pregnancy, 252
Tuberculosis, eugenics and, 179
----, heredity and, 180
----, overcrowding and, 181
----, racial extermination by, 260
“Tuberculosis, The Prevention of,” by A. Newsholme, 319
Unemployment, eugenics and, 293
----, overcrowding and, 293
United States, control of drunkards in the, 242
---- ----, higher education of woman in the, 89
---- ----, increase of population in the, 76
---- ----, the, a wheat-producing country, 80, 81
“Unto this Last,” by John Ruskin, 320
Variation, 297
“Variation, Heredity and Evolution,” by R. H. Lock, 311
“Variations in Animals and Plants,” by H. M. Vernon, 311
Vertebrates, evolution of the, 55
Vital economy, the principle of, 17, 19
War, a cause of reversed selection, 284
----, mind the master in, 97
Wealth, Ruskin's definition of, 17
“Westminster Gazette, The,” on the population and the food supply, 79
Wheat, improvement in, 82
---- problem, the, 79
“Wheat Problem, The,” by Sir William Crookes, 80
Wheat, Prof. Biffen's, 109
Whiskey, defined, 232
“Widows and Orphans,” and the alcohol trade, 245
Woman and eugenics, 193, 294
----, employment of, 294
----, the higher education of, non-eugenic effects of, 89
Women, married, and labour, 270
----, secret drinking by, 232
----, selection for marriage by, 194
Work, the eugenic necessity of, 264
Writing, the art of, as a means of transmission, 261
“Yellow Peril,” the, 78, 269
“Youth, its Education, Regimen and Hygiene,” by Stanley Hall, 318
INDEX OF NAMES
Aristotle, 262
---- on motherhood, 167
---- on racial decay, 256, 257
----, “Politics,” by, 167
Arnold, Matthew, 289
----, Thomas, 289
Asquith, H. H., 234
Bach, 300
---- family, the, 289
Bacon on the command of Nature, 13, 26, 41
Balfour, A. J., 228
----, ----, on decadence, 234, 279, 280
----, ----, on intemperance, 235
----, ----, on legislation, 233
----, ----, on Licensing Bill of 1908, 233
----, ----, on politics, 286
Ballantyne, Dr., on the unborn infant, 320
Barker, Ernest, on the destruction of marriage, 167
Bateson, Prof. W., “Methods and Scope of Genetics,” by, 306
Bateson, Prof. W., on education, 120
----, ----, on Mendelism, 306
Beethoven, 127, 146, 289, 292
Bertillon, M., on marital longevity, 192
Biffen, Prof., and his experiments on wheat, 109
Booth, the Rt. Hon. Charles, on the extent of starvation, 82
Bouchacourt on the care of motherhood, 145
Bourneville, on lead poisoning, 247
Branthwaite, Dr. R. Welsh, 228, 238
----, ----, “Inebriety, Its Causation and Control,” by, 217 (_note_),
319
----, ----, on alcoholism as a symptom of degeneracy, 217
Brieux, “Les Avariés”, 252
Brooks, Graham, on the Negro race, xi
Brouardel, parental morphinomania, 212
Browning, Robert, 135
Buckle, 267
Buddha, 146
Bulstrode, Dr., on tuberculosis, 181 (_note_)
Burchell, 52
Burns, the Rt. Hon. John, on motherhood, 32
Byron on the decay of nations, 255
Cakebread, Jane, the case of, 222, 225, 228, 238
Carlyle, Thomas, 309
----, ----, on history, 254 (_note_)
----, ----, “The French Revolution,” by, 254 (_note_)
Chatterton-Hill, George, “Heredity and Selection in Sociology,” by,
311
Chesterton, G. K., on eugenics, 158 (_note_)
Clouston, T. S., “The Hygiene of Mind,” by, 319
Cobden, Richard, 17
Cohn on the multiplication of bacteria, 160
Coleridge, 262
Combemale, experiments of, in alcoholism, 211
Constable, “Poverty and Hereditary Genius,” by, 308
Copernicus, 180
Cottrell, Mr., on the population of London, 76
Crackanthorpe, Mr. Montague, on the birth rate, 95
----, ----, “Population and Progress,” by, 315
Crichton-Browne, Sir James, on education, 125
Crookes, Sir William, 85
----, ----, on the wheat supply, 80
----, ----, “The Wheat Problem,” by, 80
Darwin, Charles, 42, 236, 296, 301, 307, 313
----, ----, and the effect of music on plants, 127
----, ----, centenary of the birth of, vii
----, ----, his talented ancestry and kindred, 289
----, ----, on degeneration, 171
----, ----, on national rise and decline, 275 (_note_)
----, ----, on natural selection, 83, 137, 260, 261
----, ----, on sexual selection, 67, 190, 197
----, ----, on the elephant, 72 (_note_)
----, ----, on the future, 293
----, ----, on the multiplication of the unfit, 227, 279
----, ----, on the queen bee, 44
----, ----, on vitality and muscularity, 67 (_note_)
----, ----, Ruskin on, 95
----, ----, “The Descent of Man,” by, 171, 191, 197, 279, 311
----, ----, “The Origin of Species,” by, 43, 73 (_note_), 311
Darwin, Erasmus, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, 289, 290
----, Francis, 290
----, Sir George, 290
Demme and parental alcoholism, 212
Disraeli on circumstances, 149
Down, Dr. Langdon, on drunkenness and the feeble-minded, 219
Dunlop, Dr. A. R., on habitual drunkenness, 219
Eccles, McAdam, on alcohol and the racial organs, 209
----, ----, on drunkenness, 221
Ellis, Havelock, “A Study of British Genius,” by, 308
----, ----, “Man and Woman,” by, 318
----, ----, on drunkenness, 219
----, ----, on sexual selection, 202, 204
----, ----, on socialism and education, 132
----, ----, “Sexual Selection in Man,” by, 202
Emerson on mass _versus_ mind, 96
---- on the morality of the universe, 37
Empedocles on survival value, 46
Epictetus on fools, 130
Etienne on opinion as ruler, 234
Féré on alcohol, 207
Ferrier, Prof. David, on habitual drunkenness, 219
Finot, Jean, on the Negro race, xi
----, ----, “Race Prejudice,” by, 318
Fleck, Dr., on drunkenness and the feeble-minded, 219
Forel, Prof. August, 17, 137
----, ----, “Die Sexuel Frage,” by 130, 242, 253, 320
----, ----, “Hygiene of Nerves and Mind,” by, 242, 319
----, ----, on alcohol as a racial poison, 244
----, ----, on alcoholism and heredity, 242
----, ----, on education, 129, 130
----, ----, on our duty to posterity, 35
----, ----, on the future of the race, 171
----, ----, on the nervous system, 53
----, ----, on the sexual education of children, 139
Galton, Francis, vii, 110, 206, 293, 307
----, ----, and acquired characters, the non-transmission of, 114
(_note_), 216, 259
----, ----, and biometrics, xiii
----, ----, and eugenics, positive and negative, 172
----, ----, and G. B. Shaw, 155
----, ----, and the law of regression towards mediocrity, 289
----, ----, “Eugenics as a Factor in Religion,” by, 315
----, ----, “Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims,” by, 314
----, ----, “Hereditary Genius,” by 107, 114, 289, 302 (_note_), 307,
308
----, ----, his kinship to Darwin, 289
----, ----, “Inquiries into Human Faculty,” by, 92, 128, 290, 308
----, ----, “Memories of my Life,” by, vii, 308
----, ----, “Natural Inheritance,” by, 308
----, ----, on ancestry, a rational pride in, 144
----, ----, on breeding for ability, 153
----, ----, ---- energy, 67, 153
----, ----, ---- health, 145, 153
----, ----, on civic worth, 68
----, ----, on civilisation, 117
----, ----, on energy, 193 (_note_), 290
----, ----, on eugenics, the meaning and the aims of, 157, 298, 315
----, ----, on functionally produced modifications, the
non-inheritance of, 211
----, ----, on genius, hereditary, 107, 114
----, ----, ----, the quality of, 114 (_note_)
----, ----, on human intelligence, 41
----, ----, on human variety, 298
----, ----, on marriage, eugenic, 168
----, ----, ----, late, 92
----, ----, ----, the subsidisation of, 200
----, ----, on motherhood, the subsidisation of, 157
----, ----, on national eugenics, 115
----, ----, on national rise and decline, 279
----, ----, on public opinion, the formation of, 15
----, ----, on society, the eugenic value of the various classes of,
104
----, ----, on sociology, the duties of, 275
----, ----, on the desirable qualities, 299
----, ----, on the future of man, 302
----, ----, on the production of genius, 288
----, ----, on the production of talent, 292
----, ----, “Probability the Foundation of Eugenics,” by, 315
----, ----, “Restrictions in Marriage,” by, 185, 204, 315
----, ----, “Studies in National Eugenics,” by, 315
----, ----, “The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed, under
existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment,” by, 314
Gaskell, Dr. W. H., “The Origin of Vertebrates,” by, 50 (_note_)
Geddes, Prof. Patrick, on Government, 122
----, ----, “The Evolution of Sex,” by, and Prof. J. A. Thomson, 312
Gibbon, 271 (_note_)
---- on history, 254
---- on the necessity for advance or retrogression, 266
Gladstone, Herbert, and the treatment of chronic inebriates by the
London County Council, 222, 223
Godwin, William, on literature, 262 (_note_)
Goethe on activity, 291 (_note_)
---- on fate and chance, 12
---- on ignorance, 223
---- on marriage, 168
---- on the education of race, 136
Gorst, Sir John, “The Children of the Nation,” by, 319
Hall, Prof. Stanley, “Adolescence,” by, 318
----, ----, “Youth, its Education, Regimen and Hygiene,” by, 318
Helvetius on the influence of education, 128
Hobbes, Thomas, on “Words”, 106
----, ----, “Leviathan,” by, 106 (_note_)
Holmes, Mr. Thomas, on habitual drunkenness, 220
Horsley, Sir Victor, and Mary D. Sturge, “Alcohol and the Human
Body,” by, 319
Howard, G. E., “A History of Matrimonial Institutions,” by, 312
Huxley, 29, 40, 58, 280, 281
----, “Evolution and Ethics,” by, 26
---- on cosmic nature, 26, 36, 39 (_note_)
---- on Pasteur, 94
---- on public opinion, 135
---- on the multiplication of the unfit, 227
Im Thurn, Mr., on marriage customs of Guiana, 184
Jones, Dr. Robert, on the case of Jane Cakebread, 328
Jones, W. H. S., “Malaria: a Neglected Factor in the History of
Greece and Rome,” by, 319
Joubert, 18
Kant, 4, 87
---- on the influence of education, 128
Keats, 46, 50
Kellogg, Vernon L., “Darwinism To-day,” by, 312
Kelvin, Lord, his services to life, 95
Kipling, Rudyard, and imperialism, 244, 245
----, ----, on breeds in the making, 245
----, ----, on emigration, 9
Kirby, Miss, on the feeble-minded, 220
Kirkup, Thomas, on Malthusianism, 84
Koch and tuberculosis, 180
Lamarck, 36
---- on inheritance of acquired characters, 134, 258, 259, 261
---- _versus_ Weismann, 206, 207, 208
Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on man, the controller of nature, 41
----, ----, on the multiplication of man, 9, 71, 72
----, ----, on the struggle for existence, 42, 280
----, ----, “The Kingdom of Man,” by, 41 (_note_)
Legrain on alcoholism and heredity, 220
Leonardo da Vinci, 264
Letourneau, Prof., “The Evolution of Marriage,” by, 312
Lewin on lead poisoning, 248
Lister, Lord, his services to life, 95
Livingstone, Dr., on African marriage customs, 184
Lock, R. H., “Variation, Heredity and Evolution,” by, 311
Lombroso, criminological work of, 177
London, Bishop of, on the falling birth-rate, 96
Love, Dr., on deaf-mutism, 174
Lowell, J. R., on human suffering, 130
Lucretius, 12, 260
Lydston, G. F., “The Diseases of Society: the Vice and Crime
Problem,” by, 318
MacCunn, Prof., on the infant mind, 124
----, ----, “The Making of Character,” by, 124
MacDougal, Dr. T. D., on “Heredity and Environic Forces”, 210
McDougall, Dr. W., on infant mortality, 23
----, ----, on transmissible characters, 117
----, ----, “Social Psychology,” by, 117
Magee, Archbishop, 243
Malthus, T. R., 17, 313
----, ----, his theory, 80, 83
----, ----, ignorance as to his essay, 85
----, ----, importance of his doctrine to-day, 85
----, ----, “The Principles of Population,” by, 83, 85, 312
Marcus Aurelius, 298
Marshall, Dr. C. F., on alcohol and syphilis, 253
----, ----, “Syphilology” by, 253
Maudsley, Dr., on eugenics, 187
Mendel, the theory of, 108, 307
Meredith, George, 37, 231, 287
----, ----, “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,” by, 112 (_note_)
Metchnikoff, on age at marriage, 90
----, “The Nature of Man,” by, 90
Mill, James, 289
----, John Stuart, 182, 289
----, ----, on nature, 38
Milton, 292
Morgan, Prof. Lloyd, “Survival Value”, 46
Mott, Dr. F. W., on habitual drunkenness, 219
Mozart, 126
Napoleon, the wars of, cause of reversed selection in France, 284
Newman, Dr. George, on the falling birth-rate, 86 (_note_)
----, ----, “Infant Mortality,” by, 86, 319
Newsholme, Dr. A., on tuberculosis, 182
----, ----, “The Prevention of Tuberculosis,” by, 319
Newton, Sir Isaac, 6, 146, 288, 300, 301
----, saved by motherhood, 150
Nietzsche and the Darwinian theory, 51
---- and the super-man theory, 25
---- and “transvaluation,” 101
---- on organic evolution, 158
Oliver, Sir Thomas, on lead poisoning, 247, 248, 249
----, ----, “Diseases of Occupation,” by, 247 (_note_), 319
Palestrina, 127
Palmerston, Lord, 131
Parsons, Dr. Elsie Clews, on diminution of offspring, 162
----, ----, on parentage, 161, 162
----, ----, “The Family,” by, 314
Pascal, 52
Pasteur and tuberculosis, 180
----, his value to the French nation, 94
---- on the abolition of disease, 72
Paterson, W. R., on slavery, the cause of the fall of empires, 281
----, ----, “The Nemesis of Nations,” by, 281
Pearson, Prof. Karl, 314
----, ----, and biometrics, xiii
----, ----, “National Life from the Standpoint of Science,” by, 279,
315
----, ----, on national rise and decline, 275 (_note_), 279
----, ----, on the multiplication of the yellow races, 78
----, ----, “The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of
National Eugenics,” by, 315
Pericles, 292
Petrie, Prof. Flinders, “Janus in Modern Life,” by, 22
----, ----, on infantile mortality, 22
Plato and motherhood, 166
---- and the destruction of the family, 169, 313
---- on the duty of Governments, 276
---- on racial decay, 256, 257
---- on the sanctity of marriage, 313
---- on the State as mother, 313
----, “The Republic,” of, 166, 313, 314
Pope, on genius and insanity, 176
Potts, Dr. W. A., on “The Relation of Alcohol to Feeble-mindedness”,
214, 216
Ranke, Prof., on the mind of man, 59
Ravenhill, Miss Alice, on “Education for Motherhood”, 32
----, ----, on the education of girls, 320
Reid, Dr. Archdall, on alcohol, 206, 211
----, ----, on humanitarianism and deterioration, 24, 25
----, ----, on the marriage of drunkards, 235
----, ----, on the resistance of the germ-plasm, 250
----, ----, “Alcoholism, A Study in Heredity,” by, 319
----, ----, “The Principles of Heredity,” by, 311
Rembrandt, 4
Rennert on lead poisoning, 247, 248
Rentoul, Dr. R. R., on the sterilisation of mental and physical
degenerates, 316
----, ----, “Race Culture or Race Suicide,” by, 316
Reynolds, Sir Alfred, on the treatment of inebriates, 226, 230
Roche, Sir Boyle, on posterity, 11
Roques on lead poisoning, 247
Ross, Prof. Ronald, “Malaria, A Neglected Factor in the History of
Greece and Rome,” introduced by, 319
----, ----, on malaria as a cause of national decay, 260, 282
Rowntree, B. Seebohm, on the extent of starvation, 82
Ruskin, John, “Munera Pulveris,” by, 302 (_note_), 320
----, “Time and Tide,” by, 96, 131, 254 (_note_), 296, 320
----, “Unto this Last,” by, 320
---- on Darwin, 95
---- on education and inequality, 131
---- on life the only wealth, 17, 133, 269
---- on marriage, 296
---- on mass _versus_ mind, 96
---- on posterity, 287
---- on the duty of Governments, 18, 276
---- on the future of man, 302
---- on the manufacture of souls, 270
---- on the neglect of children, 145
---- on the neglect of woman, 145
---- on true history, 254 (_note_)
---- on work, 264
St. Francis, 301
Saleeby, Dr., “Alcohol and Infancy,” by, 214
----, ----, and G. B. Shaw, his controversy on marriage with, 157
----, ----, “Evolution, the Master Key,” by, 147
----, ----, “Health, Strength and Happiness,” by, 119 (_note_)
----, ----, “Individualism and Collectivism,” by, 101 (_note_)
----, ----, “Obstacles to Eugenics,” by, 175 (_note_)
----, ----, on biology and history, 254 (_note_)
----, ----, on London's inebriates, the case of, 226
----, ----, on progress, 262
----, ----, on the survival-value of religion, 303
----, ----, on widows and orphans made by alcohol, 245
----, ----, “The Essential Factor of Progress,” by, 262
Salisbury, Lord, his attack on evolution, 45
----, ----, on Spain a dying nation, 268
Sandow, 135
---- and the development of physique, 64
Scharlieb, Mrs., on maternal alcoholism, 214 (_note_)
----, ----, “The Drink Problem,” by, 214 (_note_)
Schopenhauer on love intrigue, 197 (_note_)
Schubert, 46, 50
Seton, Ernest Thompson, on animal marriage, 163
Shakespeare, 6, 126, 146, 245, 255, 287, 293, 301
----, ancestry of, 107-109
----, quoted, xii, 58 (_note_), 97, 231, 278
Shaw, Dr. Claye, on maternal alcoholism, 213
----, George Bernard, 85, 169
----, ----, on eugenics, 155, 156
----, ----, on heredity, 102
----, ----, on marriage, his controversy with Dr. Saleeby, 157
----, ----, on motherhood, 166
Shaw, Dr. Claye, on the State as mother, 156
Shelley, 131
Simpson, Sir James, on the inheritance of acquired characters, 136
Sims, G. R., on children, the protection of, 237
----, ----, on habitual drunkards, the treatment of, 222
----, ----, “on the cry of the children”, 295
----, ----, “The Black Stain,” by, 237, 319
----, ----, “The Cry of the Children,” by, 237, 319
Smith, Adam, 17
Socrates, 313, 314
Sombart, Dr., on the population of Germany, 77
Sophocles, quoted, 52
Spencer, Herbert, 4, 9, 85, 296, 300
----, absence of early education of, 120
---- and evolution, 43, 48
---- and functionally produced modifications, 111
---- and his reply to Lord Salisbury's attack on evolution, 45
---- and Huxley, 26
---- and “social organisms”, 256
---- on the cosmic process, 25
---- on the defencelessness of man, 58
---- on education, 131
---- on education for parenthood, 140
---- on human fertility, 89, 90, 91, 92
---- on individuation and genesis, 288
---- on marital longevity, 191, 192
---- on marriage, 164
---- on natural selection, 35
---- on parenthood, 88
---- on the future of man, 301, 302
---- on the laws of multiplication, 86, 87, 266
---- on woman and selection for marriage, 193
----, the ancestry of, 152
----, the “Autobiography” of, 35, 58, 65, 152
----, “The Data of Ethics,” by, 302 (_note_)
----, “the survival of the fittest”, 23 (_note_), 43, 44, 84, 260
----, “Education,” by, 317
----, “The Principles of Biology,” by, 86, 312
----, “The Study of Sociology,” by, 192, 317
Spinoza, 46, 50
Stark, Dr., on marital longevity, 192
Sturge, Mary D., and Sir Victor Horsley, “Alcohol and the Human
Body,” by, 319
Sullivan, Dr. W. C., “Alcoholism,” by, 211, 242, 319
----, ----, on alcohol and alcoholism, 207, 211-213, 220
Sutherland on parental care, 162
Theognis on pecuniary inheritance, 101
---- on the duty of Governments, 276
Thomas, W. I., “Sex and Society,” by, 317
Thompson, Francis, 128
Thomson, Prof. J. A., “Heredity,” by, 99, 305
----, ----, on “inheritance”, 110 (_note_)
----, ----, on race culture, 99
----, ----, on reversion, 111
----, ----, “The Evolution of Sex,” by, and Patrick Geddes, 312
----, ----, translator of Weismann, 311
----, M. R., translator of Weismann, 311
Thoreau, quoted, 173
Tille on man the wealth of nations, 17
Tintoretto, 288
Turner, Sir William, on the human foot, 61
Urquhart, Dr. A. R., on habitual drunkenness, 219
Vernon, H. M., “Variations in Animals and Plants,” by, 311
Villemin and tuberculosis, 180
Waddington, Mr. Quintin, his translation of Aulus Gellius, 271
(_note_)
Wagner, “Siegfried”, 303
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 314
----, ----, on matrimonial choice by women, 194
----, ----, on natural selection, 83
Watson, William, the patriotism of, x
Watts, G. F., 4
Wedgwood, Josiah, maternal grandfather of Charles Darwin, 289
Weismann, August, 206, 211, 216, 248, 280
----, his controversy with Lamarck, 208
----, on parental alcoholism, 208-210
----, “The Germ-Plasm: a Theory in Heredity,” by, 208, 311
----, “The Evolution Theory,” by, 311
Wellington, Duke of, 128
Wells, H. G., on the multiplication of the unfit, 14
---- on Spencer's terminology, 43, 44, 49
Westermarck, Dr. E., on marriage, 158, 165
----, ----, on the control of marriage, 184
----, ----, “The History of Human Marriage,” by, 312
Wordsworth, 4, 244, 301, 302
----, absence of early education of, 120
---- on the decay of nations, 284
----, quoted, 35, 277, 300
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