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Title: The Social Direction of Evolution
An Outline of the Science of Eugenics

Author: William E. Kellicott

Release Date: March 20, 2010 [EBook #31705]

Language: English

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THE SOCIAL DIRECTION OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

THE SOCIAL DIRECTION OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

AN OUTLINE OF THE SCIENCE OF EUGENICS

BY

WILLIAM E. KELLICOTT
PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, GOUCHER COLLEGE

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NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE

This small volume is based upon three lectures on Eugenics delivered
at Oberlin College in April, 1910. In preparing them for publication
many extensions and a few additions have been made in order to present
the subject more adequately and to include some very recent results of
eugenic investigation.

Few subjects have come into deserved prominence more rapidly than has
Eugenics. Biologists, social workers, thoughtful students and
observers of human life everywhere, have felt the growing necessity
for some kind of action leading to what are now recognized as eugenic
ends. Hitherto the lack of guiding principles has left us in the dark
as to where to take hold and what methods to pursue. To-day, however,
progress in the human phases of biological science clearly gives us
clews regarding modes of attack upon many of the fundamental problems
of human life and social improvement and progress, and suggests
concrete methods of work.

The present essay does not represent an original