...co-operate with the workings of Nature by securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races. What Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly,...power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction ; just as it is his duty to succour neighbours who suffer misfortune. The improvement of our stock...

...co-operate with the workings of nature by securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races. What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly,...so it becomes his duty to work in that direction. The improvement of our stock seems to me one of the highest objects that we can reasonably attempt....

...The paper applies to men and women the general conception of "stock-breeding" familiar to farmers. "What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly," if we could only introduce Eugenics into the natural conscience like a new religion " (p. 50). Dr Maudsley,...

..." of the Sociological Society, Sir Francis Galton himself explaining, in admirable summary, that " what Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly." Such is the amazing promise : a promise backed by no flighty and inexact dreamers, but by men trained...

...cooperate with the workings of nature by securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races. What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly,...so it becomes his duty to work in that direction. The improvement of our stock seems to me one of the highest objects that we can reasonably attempt....

...securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races. What Nature does blindly, sloulj and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly and...so it becomes his duty to work in that direction, just as it is his duty to succour neighbours who suffer misfortune. The improvement of our stock seems...

...that the program of eugenics is one of rationalization based on scientific knowledge Galton writes: "What Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly,...so it becomes his duty to work in that direction" (5). 1 76 Peter Weingart With this Gallon had set the stage for the new science of eugenics and in...

...view of humanity rising through evolutionary development. With the advent of eugenics, Galton hoped, "what Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly."1 Galton devised the word eugenics from the Greek for "well born," thus showing a fascination...

...eugenics"). His own view of the program was that of a benign hastening of the process of natural selection. "What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly and kindly."183 Thus, Galton and other eugenists called for the permanent segregation of those groups considered...

...to examine the claims of the great eugenicists. He quoted without approval Galton's statement that "What Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly" (12). He gave a vivid account of the Fitter Families contests sponsored in the twenties by the American...