AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



possible; much more, they have seriously 

 hurt the repute of the really good idea it 

 stands for. To be well born is certainly an 

 excellent thing to achieve; anyone con 

 templating being born would like to 

 arrange it. Racial well-being is certainly 

 an advantageous thing for a race; any 

 people would like to possess it. Well, 

 eugenics means these things, not surgi 

 cal sterilization of men or women, state 

 controlled breeding of children, abolish 

 ment of love, or any or all of these or the 

 other special exaggerations or ugly fancies 

 which have been made synonyms of 

 eugenics by humorists, scoffers, or cranks. 

 Eugenics bases its claim as a subject 

 for reasonable and sympathetic considera 

 tion on two grounds: first, the acknowl 

 edged power or influence of heredity for 

 good or ill in helping to determine hu 

 man fate; and, second, the acknowledged 

 power which we have in education for 

 encouraging good and discouraging bad 

 human heredity. The great recent in 

 crease in extent and precision of our 

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