AN INTRODUCTORY ORIENTATION 9 



race would ayoid the danger of deterioration and realize the best 

 of its hereditary possibilities we should know first of all what is 

 trie present trend of our development and what are some of the 

 more important forces by which our development is guided. 



It is to a consideration of the forces which are modifying the 

 inherited qualities of modern civilized peoples that the present 

 book is devoted. The undertaking naturally leads us to discuss 

 the inheritance of those human traits which are of especial signifi- 

 cance in relation to the progressive or retrogressive development 

 of mankind. After the first few chapters on this general topic the 

 rest of the book is mainly concerned with a treatment of the 

 selective agencies that determine what types of human inheri- 

 tance tend to prevail over others, and the relation of these selec- 

 tive agencies to various factors in our social environment. 



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