erested in the improvement of social conditions to-day and
to-morrow. He wants to improve housing conditions, food and milk
supplies, to reduce the curses of alcoholism, poverty, and crime, to
take the children out of the factory and their mothers out of the
sweatshop and put them into schools or under humane conditions of
labor. And so on through a long list. The biologist or Eugenist is of
course heartily with the sociologist in these endeavors, but as a
human being, not as a biologist or Eugenist. For the Eugenist is, as
such, by deliberate assumption and definition, directly interested in
only such conditions as affect the innate characteristics of the
race, conditions which may not have direct reference to the present
generation at all, but to the next and to future generations. As a
Eugenist he is not concerned with factory legislation, alcoholism, or
play grounds, unless it can be shown that there is a relation between
these things and the innate mental and physical properties of the
race. If there is such a relation, of improvement or impairment, these
are eugenic topics; if there is no such relation they are purely
social topics, and the Eugenist does not deal with them, not because
they are not worth dealing with, but because they are then by
definition outside his field. In the end the Eugenist hopes, with the
Sociologist, to accomplish these social betterments, but he believes
that these will come as by-products in the process of innate racial
improvement--improvement in the inherent, physical, mental, and moral
qualities of the human kind, and that accomplished in this way the
results will be more stable and permanent than any accomplished by
attacking the problems as such and separately, largely leaving out of
account the real and fundamental cause--bad human protoplasm.

Eugenics is not offered as a universal cure for social ills: no single
cure exists. But the Eugenist believes that no other single factor in
determining social conditions and practices approaches in importance
that of racial structural integrity and sanity. The Eugenist would
oppose only those social activities, if such there be, that conflict
with his ideal of genuine, progressive, human evolution. The main
question which the Eugenist would raise here is largely that of the
economy of effort--whether it were not better by concentrating upon a
few activities, known to give permanent results, once for all to end
an intolerable social condi