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Title: Euthenics, the science of controllable environment
a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward
higher human efficiency

Author: Ellen H. Richards

Release Date: March 5, 2010 [EBook #31508]

Language: English

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EUTHENICS

THE SCIENCE OF CONTROLLABLE
ENVIRONMENT

A PLEA FOR BETTER
LIVING CONDITIONS AS A FIRST STEP
TOWARD HIGHER HUMAN
EFFICIENCY

The national annual unnecessary loss of capitalized
net earnings is about $1,000,000,000.

_Report on National Vitality_

_By_ ELLEN H. RICHARDS
Author of Cost of Living Series, Art of Right Living, etc.

SECOND EDITION

WHITCOMB & BARROWS
BOSTON, 1912

COPYRIGHT 1910
BY ELLEN H. RICHARDS

THOMAS TODD CO., PRINTERS
14 BEACON ST., BOSTON

FOREWORD

Never has society been so clear as to its several special
ends, never has so little effort been due to chance or
compulsion.

_Ralph Barton Perry, The Moral Economy._

Not through chance, but through increase of scientific knowledge; not
through compulsion, but through democratic idealism consciously
working through common interests, will be brought about the creation
of right conditions, the control of environment.

The betterment of living conditions, through conscious endeavor, for
the purpose of securing efficient human beings, is what the author
means by EUTHENICS.[1]

[1] Eutheneo, [Greek: Eutheneo] (_eu_, well