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plex to be manageable he must interfere with natural 

 actions and rearrange them. Lastly, his observations 

 are to be classified by a logical process into laws. 



To apply this scientific method to the development 

 of an ethical system which shall conform to the con- 

 clusions of biology, certain individuals or a class of 

 individuals must act as experimenters, distinguish 

 themselves from the rest of society, and regard its 

 actions as objective phenomena which do not apply, 

 for the time being, to themselves. These experimental- 

 ists must acquaint themselves with the object of their 

 experiment and interfere with the unconstrained ac- 

 tions of society by providing constraints which shall 

 control and direct its complex course into simpler chan- 

 nels; and finally they must coordinate the effects of 

 these constraints. 



Such should be the aim of what is popularly known 

 as the science of eugenics. By derivation, eugenics 

 means to be born well, and since the results of good 

 birth may be counteracted by the subsequent life of the 

 individual, a second science has been added currently 

 under the title, euthenics, which may be defined as the 

 science of living well. For the sake of simplicity let us 

 use the word, eugenics, to include this entire system of 

 scientific ethics. And let us put out of our minds im- 

 mediately the idea that the eugenists are concerned 

 with the simpler problem of the well-being of the in- 

 dividual; like all avowed men of science, they attempt 



