Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

Eugenics

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In the notes to the introduction of this work, which assembles and revises his writings since the publication of Hereditary genius, Galton coins the neologism which gave its name to a movement: “That is, with questions bearing on what is termed in Greek, eugenes, namely, good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities. This, and the allied words, eugeneia, etc., are equally applicable to men, brutes, and plants. We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognisance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.”

Frontispiece and title page of Sir Francis Galton's Inquiries into human faculty and its development

Galton, Francis, 1822-1911

Macmillan and Co.

1883

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