...1883, Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, founded the scienee of eugenics as "'the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future générations either physically or mentally'."41 Galton suggested that "'it would be quite practical...

...laboratory for the study of National Eugenics in the University of London, has defined this new science as 'the study of agencies under social control that...future generations, either physically or mentally'. The word eugenic here has the double sense of the English wellbred, goodness of nature and goodness...

...transformation. The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, who defined it as "the study of agencies under social control that...qualities of future generations either physically or mentally."17 The idea that racial populations could be controlled by human effort appealed to Victorian...

...in respect to the most fundamental social problems." Pearl then sought changes in policy among the "agencies under social control that may improve or...impair the racial qualities of future generations" toward providing conmurptive information (Allen 1991:235; Cooke 1997l. Under the influence of Fredrick...

...or religion. Galton s 1904 definition of eugenics became the official one for the twentieth century: "The study of agencies under social control that may...future generations, either physically or mentally." The focus on race, social control, and genetic "improvement," while inspiring pioneering studies in...

...poised to take over the country, eugenics logically becomes a policy choice. She understands eugenics as "the study of agencies under social control that...the racial qualities of future generations, either mentally or physically." She takes eugenics as the antithesis of socialism and understands it as an...

...defined in 1 883 by Francis Galton (1822-1911), one of its pioneering proponents, as a "study of the agencies under social control that may improve or...future generations either physically or mentally. "44 Worried Canadian intellectuals, threatened by the expansion of both big business and the working...

...eugenics. Sir Francis Galton defined eugenics as: "[t]he study of agencies under social control which may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally" and as "...the science of the production of fine (especially human) offspring" (cited in Hayes & Hayes,...

...Francis Galton and his followers in 1883 does not seem warranted. What Galton termed "the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or...the racial qualities of future generations either mentally or physically" may be ironically suggested by the disfigurement Henry experiences in Dr. Trescott's...

...Galton, who founded eugenics as a new science of human heredity. As he put it, eugenics was dedicated to "the study of agencies under social control that may...future generations either physically or mentally." Such ideas were easily grafted onto existing 1871-80 Northern and Western European Immigration Southern...