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" the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally. "
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by American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality - 1913
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 126

Zoology - 1908 - 474 pages
...temporary home is in 88 Gower Street. The phrase ' National Eugenics ' is defined as ' the study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations, either physically or mentally '. The Laboratory has already begun to publish memoirs on its own account, and I now rest satisfied...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 112

American essays - 1913 - 916 pages
...understood by us to mean, in general, what Francis Gallon meant it to be when he defined it as 'the study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations either physically or mentally.' In particular it means taking advantage of the facts of heredity to make the human race better, or to...
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Nature, Volume 71

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1905 - 1044 pages
...fellowship in the University of London for the promotion of the study of " national eugenics," denned as " the study of the agencies under social control...future generations either physically or mentally." The fellowship is of the annual value of 250*., is tenable for one year in the first instance, and...
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Nature, Volume 76

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1907 - 774 pages
...the Clarendon Press. The author gives a short sketch of the history of eugenics, ie the " study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations, either physically or mentally," from his introduction of the word in 1883 to the organisation of the Eugenics Record Office in connection...
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The Southern Practitioner, Volume 31

Medicine - 1909 - 618 pages
...envious opportunity to contribute successfully to the study of agencies under social control, and which improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally ; that is, to the study of that which has been called eugenics. Mr. Francis Galton, .the originator...
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The Clinique: A Monthly Abstract of the Clinics and of the ..., Volume 33

Homeopathy - 1912 - 794 pages
...by Sir Francis Galton from the Greek, meaning, literally, to be well born. Gallon defined eugenics as "the study of the agencies under social control...future generations, either physically or mentally." Genetics, or the science of plant and animal breeding, is a modern one, scarcely ten years old. The...
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Psychological Review, Volume 16

James Mark Baldwin, James McKeen Cattell, Howard Crosby Warren, John Broadus Watson, Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Carroll Cornelius Pratt, Theodore Mead Newcomb - Electronic journals - 1909 - 472 pages
...scientific philanthropy which he calls the science of ' eugenics.' He defines ' eugenics ' as ' the study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations, either physically or mentally.' A ' Eugenics Education Society ' has been organized in England, which, together with the British Sociological...
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The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 13

Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1908 - 904 pages
...study of national eugenics in the University of London, has denned this new science as "the study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations, either physically or mentally." The word "eugenic" here has the double sense of the English well bred, goodness of nature, and goodness...
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American Physical Education Review, Volume 21

Health - 1916 - 736 pages
...Gallon gives the definition of eugenics as the word is used in this volume. "Eugenics is the study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations, either physically or mentally." A survey of the table of contents shows the thoroughness with which the subject is treated. Table of...
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Pediatrics, Volume 23

Children - 1911 - 846 pages
...perpetuate themselves. Therefore has come to pass the new science of Eugenics, "which is the study of agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations either physically or mentally." It is the high hope of Francis Galton, the illustrious founder of Eugenics and of his devoted followers...
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