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hazard society. So we must take it for certain that all 

 people must be born and live according to the regula- 

 tions of a band of superior human beings. 



Having thus settled on the organizers of experiments 

 for this science, their next step will be to arrange 

 the experiments and to carry them out. They will 

 first, in order to work intelligently, decide what are the 

 qualities of human perfection. I cannot discover that 

 this has been done. There seems to be just as great 

 diversity of opinion as to what constitutes the perfect 

 man among the eugenists as there is among ordinary 

 men. We meet so-called eugenic babies and euthenic 

 adults, but as standards they are rather disappointing 

 and do not seem to be sufficiently differentiated from 

 other people. Perhaps this is to be expected, for true 

 eugenics is a slow process. With the goal established, 

 the experimenters must then find some scientific way 

 of propagating the race eugenically and of determin- 

 ing and applying constraints or checks on our free 

 manner of life which will make all individuals live 

 euthenically. 



If such a scientific method were practicable, it would 

 seem to a physicist that a system of ethics could be 

 established by it. But it is a question whether such a 

 system, minimizing as it must the check of personal 

 responsibility, would not fail because it would result in 

 a form of intellectual slavery. So far the doctrines of 

 modern eugenics have not shown the slightest indica- 



