Essays in Eugenics

CONTENTS:

The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment
Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims
Restrictions in Marriage
Studies in National Eugenics
Eugenics as a Factor in Religion
Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics
Local Associations for Promoting Eugenics

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author.