Darwinism and Race Progress

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A superb treatise in evolution and eugenics from one of Britain's leading professors of physiology and discoverer of the anti-coagulant hirudin. Professor Haycraft discusses race, Darwin's Law of Selection, Galton's work, and the hereditary nature of diseases, insanity, alcoholism, crime and racial degeneration. He moves on to detail healthy eugenics, the outbreeding of the "capables" by the "incapables" and the necessity for the best in society to expand their numbers at the expense of the worst. A medical doctor by training, Professor Haycraft was also a research scholar of the British Medical Association and was chair of physiology at University College, Cardiff where he worked until retirement in 1920. From the table of contents: "The Fall of Greek and Roman Political Organisation-The Permanence of the Scandinavian and Jewish Types-Our Power to ensure our own Racial Progress-Selection is a Fact, not a Theory-Leprosy an Exterminator of the Unhealthy-Germs of Phthisis and Scrofula our Racial Friends-If we stamp out Infectious Diseases we perpetuate Poor Types-Nerve Derangements, Insanity-Importance of preventing its Transmission-Marriages of Insane Persons-Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a Sign of Mental Instability-How it is that the Production of Children by Diseased Parents is tolerated-The Necessity for producing Posterity out of our Best Types-Segregation of the Criminal an Ultimate and Effectual Resort-The Incapables-Segregation ultimately required for their Elimination-Are the More Capable relatively sterile?- Rights of the Individual, and Obligations to the Community-Rights of Children and our Obligation to them.