EUGENICS THE FUTURE OF MAN 



bringing of as many children as possible. If this 

 were so, the current fall in the birth-rate, common 

 to us with all other civilized countries save Russia, 

 would attest to a grave and wide-spread dereliction 

 of civic duty. But the somewhat uncritical ad 

 vice of President Roosevelt is sublimated and 

 exalted when the eugenic idea is applied to it. 

 As Sir Francis Younghusband said at Mr. Mac- 

 kinder s lecture in London on &quot;Man-power as a 

 Source of National Strength&quot;: &quot;For the mainte 

 nance of empire we want not merely large num 

 bers of men, but men of character and ability 

 we want not only quantity but quality. . . . What 

 we have to do, as a people, is to try and maintain 

 the high qualities of our race.&quot; Had Sir Francis 

 said &quot;maintain and enhance,&quot; he would have pre 

 cisely expressed the eugenic ideal. When this is 

 common property, and when we have a national 

 roll of distinguished families, men will be as proud 

 of being inscribed and of having their children 

 inscribed on that roll as of having had an an 

 cestor, probably worthless, who came over with 

 the Conqueror. The man who is conscious of 

 worth of any kind will make many personal sacri 

 fices in order that he may leave as many children as 

 possible to perpetuate it. In seeking a partner, 

 he will learn to attach a greater value than here 

 tofore to fine qualities, moral or intellectual, in 

 the woman of his choice ; for he desires to be written 

 in the Golden Book, and he knows that his children 

 will be the more likely to earn enrolment there if 



