Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims

by Francis Galton

"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally." -Francis Galton, Essays in Eugenics (1909) Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope and Aims (1904) is a paper in which Francis Galton provided commentary on the new science he had developed. In it, Galton discusses producing a "highly gifted race of man" by the process of selective breeding. Labeling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646797140
• ISBN13: 9781646797141
• Release Date: July 1904
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"