34 FRANCIS GALTON 



Two papers in ' Macmillan's Magazine' 1865 

 Hereditary Genius . . . . . . 1 869 



' Eraser's Magazine ' .. .. .. 1873 



Human Faculty (word ' Eugenics ' first 



employed) . . . . . . . . 1 884 



Natural Inheritance .. .. .. 1889 



Huxley Lecture . . . . . . . . 1901 



Sociological Society Papers . . . . 1 905 



Memories . . . . . . . . . . 1908 



His temperate advance is all the more 

 striking when we remember the fiery impatience 

 with which in Hereditary Genius he spoke of the 

 harm done by the Church in ordaining that the 

 intellectuals, the literary, and the sensitive should 

 be celibates, and of the wholesale slaughter by 

 the Holy Inquisition of the courageous and clear 

 minded who dared to think for themselves. 



From the first he had the support of Charles 

 Darwin, who never wavered in his admiration of 

 Galton's purpose, though he had doubts about the 

 practicality of reform. His hesitation in regard to 

 eugenic method is expressed with a wise proviso as to 

 future possibilities : " I have lately been led," he says, 

 "to reflect a little ... on the artificial checks, but 

 doubt greatly whether such would be advantageous 

 to the world at large at present, however it may 

 be in the distant future."^ In the first edition of 

 the Descent of Man (1874),^ he distinctly gives his 

 adherence to the eugenic idea by his assertion that 

 man might by selection do something for the moral 

 and physical qualities of the race. It is a great 



1 More Letters, ii., p. 43 and 50. 

 * One Volume Edit. 1894, p. 617. 



