Darwinism and Race Progress |
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| Author:
| Haycroft, John |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4912-2719-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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A superb treatise in evolution and eugenics from one of Britain's leading professors of physiology and discoverer of the anti-coagulant hirudin.
Professor Haycraft discusses race, Darwin's Law of Selection, Galton's work, and the hereditary nature of diseases, insanity, alcoholism, crime and racial degeneration. He moves on to detail healthy eugenics, the outbreeding of the "capables" by the "incapables" and the necessity for the best in society to expand their numbers at the...
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A superb treatise in evolution and eugenics from one of Britain's leading professors of physiology and discoverer of the anti-coagulant hirudin.
Professor Haycraft discusses race, Darwin's Law of Selection, Galton's work, and the hereditary nature of diseases, insanity, alcoholism, crime and racial degeneration. He moves on to detail healthy eugenics, the outbreeding of the "capables" by the "incapables" and the necessity for the best in society to expand their numbers at the expense of the worst.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTORY
Muscle and Brain versus Political Organisation
CHAPTER II: THE STANDPOINT OF BIOLOGISTS
Lamarck's View on Heredity-Darwin's Law of Selection-Three Ideas involved in Selection-The Facts of Evolutive Selection known to the Gardener and Breeder
CHAPTER III: CAUSES AND SIGNS OF PHYSICAL DETERIORATION
Modern Care for the Individual-Preventive Medicine-Physical Degeneration of the Race already indicated
CHAPTER IV: INSANITY AND ALCOHOLISM
Nerve Derangements, Insanity-Marriages of Insane Persons-Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a Sign of Mental Instability-How it is that the Production of Children by Diseased Parents is tolerated-The Necessity for producing Posterity out of our Best Types
CHAPTER V: THE CRIMINALS, INCAPABLES, AND THOSE IN DISTRESS
Crime is often an Acquired Habit-The Innate Criminal-The Jukes Family-Intermarriage does not stamp out Criminal Tendencies-Segregation ultimately required for their Elimination-Incapables to be treated like Chronic Hospital Patients
CHAPTER VI: COMPETITION
Competition of Brain against Brain-Does the Race show Increased Brain Capacity ?- Modern Democratic Attempts to equalise the Struggle-Those who succeed are not always the Best
CHAPTER VII: STERILITY OF THE CAPABLES
Are the More Capable relatively sterile ?-If so, we are breeding from our Incapables-Capable and Ambitious Men marry Late in Life-Possible Swamping of the Capables by the Incapables-Artificial Restrictions at present most disastrous
CHAPTER VIII: OBLIGATION IN PARENTHOOD
Are we prepared to carry out Selective Methods?-Rights of the Individual, and Obligations to the. Community-Rights of Children and our Obligation to them-The Masses must be taught the Main Facts of Heredity and Evolution-The End and Aim of Marriage-Our False Ideas regarding Marriage-The Stream of Life.