The Ascending EffortConstable, 1910 - 228 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 3 - Eugenics co-operates with the workings of Nature by securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races. What Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly.
الصفحة 15 - Now here, now there, to-day in one quarter, to-morrow in another, the seeming chaos is found to be threaded through with indications of law. Tendencies setting in one constant direction emerge, like the ripples that betray an ocean current ; and the longer one watches the stronger grows the persuasion that somewhere in this "law," somewhere amongst those tendencies, Taste and Conscience have their being.
الصفحة 5 - ... and to decrease the proportion of the ill-born. By this means it is hoped to promote social well-being and increase human happiness. Its purpose is thus very broadly social, and that the movement has been such from the start is proved by the words of its originator, Sir Francis Galton, who declared that Eugenics "must be introduced into the national conscience, like a new religion. It has, indeed, strong claims to become an orthodox religious tenet of the future, for Eugenics co-operates...
الصفحة 5 - Is the art instinct, art being conceived of as 'a form of energy able to set up fresh energies in our physical being.' With this broad meaning assigned to art, which itself Is subdivided into fine art, craft, and play. It becomes easily possible to elaborate a theory of human development and social progress that presents many attractive features and beautifully explains many of the phenomena of individual and social...
الصفحة 43 - I know that some effort one must make, somehow conspire to grasp this sorry scheme of things and remould it nearer to the heart's desire, yet I am no socialist.
الصفحة 4 - And although it may be diff1cult to specialise our efforts so that enthusiasm shall flow in one particular direction, still as enthusiasm is a form of vital force, the task is one for which we cannot pretend to lack the means. The means are summed up in the one word Art. The energies of the race may always be warmed by art.
الصفحة 228 - ... existence is doomed by an inexorable fate to be sorrowful and ugly. Still less easy is it to believe so, if man's own organism is appreciated, inhabited as it is by a power which, from the remotest ages, has not ceased to put forth in him delicate organs capable of understanding and loving these environing things.
الصفحة 192 - Tiber would be without the meanings which choice ideas contribute to them. Excepting to those who have cherished the powers to understand, it cannot be told how much dearer the nightfall is upon an English valley, if ideas of England are hovering round to dignify it...
الصفحة 13 - Outside the ranks of idiocy there are few full-grown persons who have not neglected in themselves more gifts than they have ever cultivated...