Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics. C. W. Saleeby

to whom the volume is dedicated and of whom all eugenists are the followers. I believe that law, despite its beauty, to be without basis in fact and incompatible with demonstrated Mendelian phenomena: and though the book is dedicated to Mr. Galton, it is more deeply dedicated to the Future. This, indeed, is the Credo of the eugenist: Expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi saeculi.

      Woman is Nature's supreme instrument of the future. The eugenist is therefore deeply concerned with her education, her psychology, the conditions which permit her to exercise her great natural function of choosing the fathers of the future, the age at which she should marry, and the compatibility between the discharge of her incomparable function of motherhood and the lesser functions which some women now assume. Obstetrics, and the modern physiology and psychology of sex, must thus be harnessed to the service of eugenics, and I hope to employ them for the elucidation, in a future volume, of the problems of woman and womanhood, thus regarded.

PART I

       THE THEORY OF EUGENICS

       Table of Contents

CHAPTER	PAGE
1.	Introductory	1
2.	The Exchequer of Life	17
3.	Natural Selection and the Law of Love	35
4.	The Selection of Mind	52
5.	The Multiplication of Man	71
6.	The Growth of Individuality	86
7.	Heredity and Race-Culture	99
8.	Education and Race-Culture	120
9.	The Supremacy of Motherhood	145
10.	Marriage and Maternalism	160

PART II

       THE PRACTICE OF EUGENICS

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11.	Negative Eugenics	171
12.	Selection through Marriage	184
13.	The Racial Poisons: Alcohol	205
14.	The Racial Poisons: Lead, Narcotics, Syphilis	246
15.	National Eugenics: Race-Culture and History	254
16.	National Eugenics: Mr. Balfour on Decadence	279
17.	The Promise of Race-Culture	287
	APPENDIX Concerning Books to Read	305
	INDEX	321

      PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE

PART I.—THE THEORY OF EUGENICS

       Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

       INTRODUCTORY

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      “A little child shall lead them”

      This book will be mere foolishness to those who repeat the inhuman and animal cry that we have to take the world as we find it—the motto of the impotent, the forgotten, the cowardly and selfish, or the merely vegetable, in all ages. The capital fact of man, as distinguished from the lower animals and from plants, is that he does not have to take the world as he finds it, that he does not merely adapt himself to his environment, but that he himself is a creator of his world. If our ancestors had taken and left the world as they found it, we should be little more than erected monkeys to-day. For none who accept the hopeless dogma is this book written. They are welcome to take and leave the world as they find it; they are of no consequence to the world; and their existence is of interest only in so far as it is another instance of that amazing wastefulness of Nature in her generations, with which this book will be so largely concerned.

      Beginning, perhaps, some six million years ago, the fact which we call human life has persisted hitherto, and shows no signs of exhaustion, much