8 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EUGENICS 



The aim of eugenics being to lessen the fertility of all 

 inferior stocks, whilst increasing the fertility of all the 

 superior, we should seek for some method of deciding in 

 which of these two equal divisions any individual should 

 be placed. This is another problem presenting many 

 difficulties, to which I hope careful attention will be paid 

 in America, especially by its medical men. In deciding 

 this question, the good qualities must always be weighed 

 in the scales as against the bad, this being a point often 

 overlooked in practice. 



To conclude, though much progress has been made in 

 recent years in eugenics, yet wide gaps still remain both 

 in our theories and in our practical proposals. The 

 International Eugenics Congress of 1921, held in New 

 York under the presidency of Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 did much to promote a forward policy in racial matters ; 

 and I am confident that the Congress of 1932, in the 

 same city, will carry on this good work in a way not 

 only to bring great credit to the United States but also 

 to help to spread the light over the whole world. 



Leonard Darwin 



August 22, 1932 



