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Individuals appear to me as partial detachments 

 from the infinite ocean of Being, and this world as 

 a stage on which Evolution takes place, principally 

 hitherto by means of Natural Selection, which 

 achieves the good of the whole with scant regard to 

 that of the individual. 



Man is gifted with pity and other kindly feelings ; 

 he has also the power of preventing many kinds of 

 suffering. I conceive it to fall well within his pro- 

 vince to replace Natural Selection by other processes 

 that are more merciful and not less effective. 



This is precisely the aim of Eugenics. Its first 

 object is to check the birth-rate of the Unfit, instead 

 of allowing them to come into being, though doomed 

 in large numbers to perish prematurely. The second 

 object is the improvement of the race by furthering 

 the productivity of the Fit by early marriages and 

 healthful rearing of their children. Natural Selection 

 rests upon excessive production and wholesale destruc- 

 tion ; Eugenics on bringing no more individuals into 

 the world than can be properly cared for, and those only 

 of the best stock. 



OALTONIA 



CANDICANS 



