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(3) That this characteristic science of force could 

 never become the science of civilization : but that 

 as embodied in the West, alike in the military State 

 and in the economic struggle, it was moving through 

 world-shaking catastrophe to irretrievable bank- 

 ruptcy in history. 



There were present at the meeting in London at 

 which Galton read his paper many of the repre- 

 sentative men of the time, politicians, publicists, 

 professors of many subjects, doctors of many 

 sciences, authors representing various branches of 

 literature. The chair was occupied by Professor 

 Karl Pearson, now holding the Professorship of 

 Eugenics, which Galton soon after founded in the 

 University of London. As I walked out into the 

 Strand from the room in the London School of 

 Economics in which the meeting had been held I 

 well remember the state of my mind. I found 

 myself looking round in the street for the face of 

 a child to restore me again to the feeling and to 

 the atmosphere of civilization. For my dominant 

 mental impression was that never before had I 

 been so nearly in touch with the mind and with the 

 standards of primitive man. 



It had been rumoured at the meeting that Karl 

 Pearson, who had presided, was to be Galton's 

 intellectual heir in carrying out this Eugenic scheme, 



