The Need for Eugenic ReformAppleton, 1926 - Всего страниц: 529 |
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... continue in all circumstances to shed their beneficent influence upon us . Unfortunately our former happy and optimistic frame of mind has been subject to certain rude shocks in recent years , making us look forward with far less ...
... continue in all circumstances to shed their beneficent influence upon us . Unfortunately our former happy and optimistic frame of mind has been subject to certain rude shocks in recent years , making us look forward with far less ...
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... continue to speak of bricks rather than of representations of bricks . Now we have seen that in any pair of bricks in the infant house , one must have been drawn by chance from the father house . But in the case of brothers , one ...
... continue to speak of bricks rather than of representations of bricks . Now we have seen that in any pair of bricks in the infant house , one must have been drawn by chance from the father house . But in the case of brothers , one ...
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... continue to remain in existence potentially unaltered . These genes remain united until they in their turn separate , one of them being ejected , and the other passing on in combination with another gene from another parent to aid in ...
... continue to remain in existence potentially unaltered . These genes remain united until they in their turn separate , one of them being ejected , and the other passing on in combination with another gene from another parent to aid in ...
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... continue to be made , and that for some time to come population will continue to increase with on the whole a simultaneous increase in welfare . It is true that as regards this country , certain statistical investigations have indicated ...
... continue to be made , and that for some time to come population will continue to increase with on the whole a simultaneous increase in welfare . It is true that as regards this country , certain statistical investigations have indicated ...
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... continue to increase in the future , and that even if , as is probable , average incomes as measured in goods do also continue to rise for some time to come , yet they will rise less than they would have risen if the population had ...
... continue to increase in the future , and that even if , as is probable , average incomes as measured in goods do also continue to rise for some time to come , yet they will rise less than they would have risen if the population had ...
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acquired differences advantages alcohol amongst animals appearance argument assortive mating average become believe beneficial benefits birth birth control birth-rate bricks cause certainly civilization classes conclusion connexion consequently consider consideration contraceptive correlation crime criminal cuckoo dependent descendants doubt dysgenic endowed environment environmental eugenic reform eugenist evil evolution evolutionary existing fact factor family limitation favour feeble-in-mind fertility future genes genius germ plasm harmful hereditary heredity homozygous human improve inborn qualities individuals inferior infertility influences inheritance of acquired innate qualities insanity Karl Pearson Lamarckian large number less fit lessen marriage mate selection mental defect methods moral nation natural inheritance natural selection offspring parenthood parents persons physical population possible posterity probably produce promote question R. A. Fisher race racial effects racial poison rate of multiplication reason recessive genes regard relative result segregation sexual selection social sterilization strata stratum superior surroundings syphilis tend tion types venereal diseases wages whilst whole
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Стр. 4 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 182 - Feeble-minded persons;* that is to say, persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to imbecility, yet so pronounced that they require care, supervision, and control for their own protection or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, that they by reason of such defectiveness appear to be permanently incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools...
Стр. vii - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Стр. 4 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 305 - Britain, on the average three were perfectly fit and healthy; two were upon a definitely infirm plane of health and strength, whether from some disability or some failure in development; three were incapable of undergoing more than a very moderate degree of physical exertion and could almost (in view of their age) be described with justice as physical wrecks; and the remaining man as a chronic invalid with a precarious hold upon life.
Стр. 53 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Стр. 305 - These four inferences may be summarized by saying that medical examinations showed that, of every nine men of military age in Great Britain, on the average three were perfectly fit and healthy; two were upon a definitely infirm plane of health and strength, whether from some disability or...
Стр. 298 - ... are so physically or mentally defective ' or diseased as to be unable to derive reasonable benefit from ' the education which the State provides.
Стр. 220 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Стр. 45 - The operation of the preventive check — wars — the silent though certain destruction of life in large towns and manufactories, and the close habitations and insufficient food of many of the poor, prevent population from outrunning the means of subsistence...