It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The Cleveland Medical Journal - Page 8431912Full view - About this book
| John Stahl Patterson - Life - 1883 - 526 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." — (Descent of Man I., 161-2). It is not a good thus to reduce the average physical vigor of civilized... | |
| Electronic journals - 1914 - 400 pages
...directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race ; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. (pp. 133-4.) On this theme Darwinians have been incessantly enlarging. Professor Ridgeway, for instance,... | |
| Caleb Williams Saleeby - Electronic books - 1909 - 390 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race ; but except in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. " With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated, and those that survive commonly exhibit... | |
| William Erskine Kellicott - Eugenics - 1911 - 278 pages
...choice but by the disadvantage of birth? Darwin wrote long ago "... except in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." Probably the most complete family history of this kind ever worked out is that of the " Familie Zero... | |
| Shailer Mathews - Politics, Practical - 1914 - 286 pages
...to appreciate the significance of those keen words of Darwin: " Except in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." I believe that women need only knowledge and the inspiration that comes of concerted action to empty... | |
| William Samuel Sadler - Medical - 1922 - 462 pages
...but by the disadvantage of birth ? Darwin wrote long ago :".... except in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." THE SITUATION IN ILLINOIS In appealing to the State Legislature of Illinois for the enactment of suitable... | |
| George Gilmore Scott - Biology - 1925 - 646 pages
...Darwin summed up the general attitude of society in these words, " Except in the case of man himself — hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." Such agencies as the Galton Laboratory for Eugenics in England and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold... | |
| Evolution - 1925 - 356 pages
...directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason,... | |
| Barbara M. Brenzel - Science - 1985 - 228 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. 25 To the biological determinists, then, poverty and suffering were ordained by nature. No one deserved... | |
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