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of success? Is it not significant that Sir Francis Galton, who so 

 clearly recognised that eugenics must pass from science into 

 practice, was also strongly convinced that progress would be slow 

 until the eugenic ideal came to have a religious value? When it 

 begins to sway us through and through — this vision of a nation 

 healthy alike in mind and body; when we come to care more about 

 that than about anything else, then we shall overcome our difficulties 

 and our timidities, our objections and our sloth. We shall know 

 eugenics to be "a virile creed, full of hopefulness, and appealing 

 to many of the noblest feelings of our nature". And, having made 

 sure of sound eugenic precepts, we shall hearken to what was said to 

 the ancient people of high eugenic practice and ideal — "and thou 

 shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of 

 them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by 

 the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up, and 

 thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall 

 be as frontlets between thine eyes; and thou shalt write them upon 

 the posts of thy house and upon thy gates". The old instruction of 

 the Book of Proverbs is well worth popularising anew, in these 

 matters and others also. 



