...betterment Ryle viewed the study of health to be linked to Francis Galton's original agenda of eugenics as 'the study of agencies under social control that...qualities of future generations either physically or mentally'.44 Equally Ryle's science of health bore remarkable similarities to Julian Huxley's agenda...

...— at least in theory. In this way Eugenics has seized the human imagination, — Eugenics meaning "The study of agencies under social control that may...future generations, either physically or mentally." Professor Castle, after developing somewhat historically the contributions of various investigators...

...(or other mass phenomena). When Galton coined the term ' eugenics ' in 1883, he defined it as 'ihe study of agencies under social control that may improve...future generations, either physically or mentally'. Was war an 'agency under social control'? Arguably war transcended, or defied, social control, or had...

...inborn qualities of a race, also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage; and it embodies the study of agencies under social control that may...impair the racial qualities of future generations. The opposite of eugenics is dysgenics, and is defined by Pearl as the study of social processes that...

...coined the term "eugenics," and it was 1904 before he formulated his classic definition of eugenics as "the study of agencies under social control that...future generations, either physically or mentally." Galton had been tremendously influenced by his cousin, Charles Darwin, whose study of human evolution,...

...fertility.18 A cousin of Darwin, Galton, who in 1883 coined the term "eugenics" to describe "the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations, either physically or mentally," asserted that the statistical approach, if used to encourage such selective breeding, could solve the...

...one word 'eugenics', defined in 1907: The term National Eugenics is here denned as the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations either physically or mentally, (cited by Blacker, 1952) What was eugenics then depended very much on the question of whether it was...

...their evidence through a research group at the University of London, the Galton Laboratory, set up for "the study of agencies under social control that may...future generations, either physically or mentally"; they believed that "to produce a nation healthy alike in mind and body must become a fixed idea —...

..."eugenics" to compass this study of criteria for inherited qualities of fitness/unfitness in the human race: "the study of agencies under social control that may...future generations either physically or mentally" (Galton 1883 p. 25). On the basis of this research, he went on to claim that human qualities, including...

...coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin. Galton defined eugenics as "the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or...qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally."1 Following Galton, eugenicists the world over argued in the early decades of the twentieth...