viii Editors' Preface 



churches who have never completed a high- 

 school education and for whom the church has 

 important educational responsibility. There- 

 fore, without in any wise undertaking to parallel 

 the work of the high school, the curriculum of 

 religious education may well include a wide 

 range of social studies. 



For these reasons the scheme of the Con- 

 structive Studies has contemplated very much 

 more than the biblical elements. Beginning 

 with Henderson's Social Duties from the Chris- 

 tian Point of View a series of textbooks deal- 

 ing with important social problems has been 

 gradually developed. 



The present study is an attempt to consider 

 frankly and seriously the scientific facts regard- 

 ing the problem commonly called "eugenics." 

 The religious significance of a reverent and 

 thoughtful understanding of this highly interest- 

 ing subject is at once apparent when one thinks 

 of the perfecting of human society as the goal 

 of the divine plan. The scientist, as such, will 

 not of course discuss the spiritual significance 

 of the evolutionary goal. That is where faith 



