ent, practically
without effect in the long run. "Good intentions" have a certain
well-known value as paving material, but not as building material.

The science of Eugenics includes not only the study of the data in
this field, but further the formulation of definite courses of
procedure; but it insists that these be based upon scientific
principles and not upon emotional states. Philanthropic relief has
become a serious business--is becoming a science. Eugenics is a
science and it aims to put the human race upon such a level that the
need for philanthropic relief will be less and continually less. We
shall then be able to devote more of the resources of our time and
money and energy to the production of permanent results. The Eugenist
pleads in this work for more sympathetic consideration of the problems
of relief--for a sympathy which is wider, which transcends the
individual person and reaches the social group, even the nation or
race. For just as a society is something more than the sum of its
individual parts when taken separately, so the consideration of all
the component individuals of a society taken separately and by
themselves, results in something less than social consideration. Again
"Charity refers to the individual; Statesmanship to the nation;
Eugenics cares for both."

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What, then, does the Eugenist propose to do? What is the eugenic
program? Eugenics is not an academic matter--not an armchair science.
It is intensely practical--so very practical, indeed, that the
Eugenist hesitates to make many suggestions of a definite nature
looking directly and immediately toward specific action. Something
must precede action. The Eugenist has been ridiculed as one
responsible for the absurd schemes proposed in his name, perhaps
seriously, by the unscientific but well-intentioned sympathizer. Many
persons have been led to object to what they believed to be a eugenic
program which is not a eugenic program at all. Thus the willingness of
some to offer adverse criticism of the subject and its aims has grown
largely out of a common misconception of the matter and has led Galton
to say, "As in most other cases of novel views, the wrongheadedness of
objectors to Eugenics has been curious." As a scientist the Eugenist
realizes clearly and fully that his new science is in a very early
stage of its development. It is just entering upon what are the first
stages in the history of a