This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...to be, no institution can come off scathless that hinders the well-endowed from outbreeding the ill-constituted and filling the earth. This test may do much to end debate and unify opinion on social questions. Into the profitless discussion of measures from the standpoint of particular interests the sociologist has ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...to be, no institution can come off scathless that hinders the well-endowed from outbreeding the ill-constituted and filling the earth. This test may do much to end debate and unify opinion on social questions. Into the profitless discussion of measures from the standpoint of particular interests the sociologist has thrown the question, " Is it best for society as a whole?" But society is a vague entity, and each disputant deems his own class the backbone of society. The selectionist in turn seeks to lift the plane of discussion with the question, "Will it tend to the preponderance of the fittest?" For cases where it can be applied, perhaps his touchstone will be adopted sooner than that of the sociologist. Most of us are hazy as to the social welfare; but every one knows and prefers the hale to the sickly, the wise to the foolish, the noble to the base. Edwaed Alswokth Ross. The Untvebbity Of Nebraska. BIBLIOGRAPHY. V. Galton. Hereditary Genius. 1869. On the Improvement of the Human Breed under the Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment. Popular Science Monthly, January, 1902. Dabwin. The Descent of Man. 1871. Bagehot. Physics and Politics. 1871. Bill. Memoir upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race. National Academy of Sciences. 1884. Dx Candolle. Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis deux sifecles. "Selection dan- 1'espece humaine." 1884. Nietzsche. Jenseits von Gut und Bose. Chaps, iii., v., and ix. 1885. Dugdale. The Jukes. 1888. Huxley. Collected Essays, Vol. IX. "The Struggle for Existence." 1888. Hans Ex. Die drei Bevolkerungsstufen. 1889. Dumont. Depopulation et civilisation. 1890. Ritchie. Darwinism and Politics. 1891. Ammon. Die natiirliche Auslese beim Menschen. 1893. Die Gesellsc...
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