How Mankind Might be Improved. By Murder, Mutilation, or Imprisonment
Anon
Genre: | Abstract |
Publications abstracted: | Hiram A Stanley Arena Journal of Mental Science Herbert L Snow Nineteenth Century |
Subjects: | Heredity, Darwinism, Human Species, Breeding, Eugenics, Mental Illness, Degeneration |
Complains that all three articles fail to recognise that any plans to apply artificial selection to human breeding can be effected only 'by capital punishment, by surgical operation, or by perpetual imprisonment'. | |
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