Essays in eugenics
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. Eugenics Education Society. light wear to boards, notes on prelim, occasional pencil in margins, light foxing to edges, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981
Chapters (119)
- ESSAYS IN EUGENICS.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- THE POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT OF THE HUMAN BREED,
- EUGENICS: ITS DEFINITION, SCOPE AND AIMS.
- RESTRICTIONS IN MARRIAGE.
- STUDIES IN NATIONAL EUGENICS
- I. Estimation of the average quality of the offspring of married couples, from their personal and ancestral data. This includes questions of fertility, and the determination of the “probable error” of the estimate for individuals, according to the data employed.
- II. Effects of action by the State and by Public Institutions.
- III. Other influences that further or restrain particular classes of marriage.
- IV. Heredity.
- V. Literature.
- VI. Co-operation.
- VII. Certificates.
- Mr. Galton’s Reply to remarks made during the discussion that followed.
- EUGENICS AS A FACTOR IN RELIGION.
- PROBABILITY, THE FOUNDATION OF EUGENICS.
- History of Eugenics.
- Application of Theories of Probability to Eugenics.
- Object Lessons in the Methods of Biometry.
- Influence of Collective Truths upon Individual Conduct.
- LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS FOR PROMOTING EUGENICS
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