CONTENTS 



B. CONTROL OF HUMAN HEREDITY 



I. PAST EVOLUTION OF MAN 

 II. CAN HUMAN EVOLUTION BE CONTROLLED? 



1. Selective Breeding the only Method of 

 Improving the Race. 



2. No Improvement in Human Heredity 

 within Historic Times 



3. Why the Race has not Improved 

 III. EUGENICS 



1. Possible and Impossible Ideals 



2. Negative Eugenical Measures 



3. Positive Eugenical Measures 



4. Contributory Eugenical Measures 



5. The Declining Birthrate 

 CHAPTER VI. GENETICS AND ETHICS 



I. THE VOLUNTARISTIC CONCEPTION OF NA- 

 TURE AND OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY 

 II. THE MECHANISTIC CONCEPTION OF NATURE 

 AND OF PERSONALITY 



1. The Determinism of Heredity 



2. The Determinism of Environment 

 III. DETERMINISM AND RESPONSIBILITY 



1. Determinism not Fatalism 



2. Control of Phenomena and of Self 



3. Birth and Growth of Freedom 



4. Responsibility and Will 



5. Our Unused Talents 



IV. THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE 



1. The Conflict between the Freedom of 

 the Individual and the Good of Society 



2. Perpetuation and Improvement of the 

 Race the Highest Ethical Obligation 



REFERENCES, GLOSSARY, INDEX 

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