Darwinism and Race Progress

About this eBook

Author

Haycraft, John Berry, 1857-1922

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Produced by Charlene Taylor, Marie Bartolo, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

HM: Social sciences: Sociology

Subject

Evolution

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Text

eBook-No.

45992

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45992

Release Date

June 15, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — Muscle and Brain versus Political Organisation. — The Muscles and Brains of a Race are not bound to decay. — The Fall of Greek and Roman Political Organisation. — The Permanence of the Scandinavian and Jewish Types. — Possible Racial Degeneration in Spain. — Our Power to ensure our own Racial Progress. — The Knowledge we possess regarding the Laws of Racial Change. — Evolution. — Modern Philanthropic Effort. — Are these conducive to Racial as well as to Individual Well-being? — FOOTNOTE
5. 5.CHAPTER II. THE STANDPOINT OF BIOLOGISTS. — Lamarck’s View on Heredity. — Darwin’s Law of Selection. — Three Ideas involved in Selection. — Selection is a Fact, not a Theory. — How much is explainable by Selection? — Galton and Weismann. — Are Acquired Characters transmitted? — Many Cases of Supposed Transmission to be explained by Selection. — Paucity of Experimental Evidence of such Transmission. — The Reproductive and the Body Cells. — Reproductive Cells unaffected by Local Changes in the Body Cells. — Constitutional Change may, though it rarely does, affect the Reproductive Cell. — The Facts of Evolutive Selection known to the Gardener and Breeder. — FOOTNOTES
6. 6.CHAPTER III. CAUSES AND SIGNS OF PHYSICAL DETERIORATION. — Modern Care for the Individual. — Preventive Medicine. — Micro-organisms of Diseases and their Extermination. — The Reproductive Cells are as a Rule unaffected by them. — Man has been selected by the Action of the Microbes of Fever. — Leprosy an Exterminator of the Unhealthy. — Germs of Phthisis and Scrofula, our Racial Friends. — If we stamp out Infectious Diseases we perpetuate Poor Types. — Births, Deaths, and Marriages. — Increase of Constitutional Weakness. — Death-rate for Advanced Years on the Increase. — Life Tables compared. — Physical Degeneration of the Race already indicated. — FOOTNOTES
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. INSANITY AND ALCOHOLISM. — Nerve Derangements—Insanity. — The Importance of preventing its Transmission. — Marriages of Insane Persons. — Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a Sign of Mental Instability. — Drink is a Selective Agency. — Parents who drink from Habit may have Debilitated Offspring. — Preventive Measures. — Drink among Australian Convicts. — Drink and Prevention in America. — Public Habit and Conscience the best Preventive. — The Power of the Community over the Individual. — The Necessity for replacing One Selective Agency by Another. — How it is that the Production of Children by Diseased Parents is tolerated. — The Necessity for producing Posterity out of our Best Types. — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.CHAPTER V. THE CRIMINALS, INCAPABLES, AND THOSE IN DISTRESS. — Crime is often an Acquired Habit. — The Innate Criminal. — The Jukes Family. — Intermarriage does not stamp out Criminal Tendencies. — Segregation of the Criminal an Ultimate and Effectual Resort. — Our Unfortunate Use of the Word “Poor.” — The Unfortunate, the Aged, the Incapables, and the Vicious, are treated alike. — Our Poor-law Regulations are at Fault. — The Idle and Vicious are Subjects for the Criminal Law. — The Poor in very Deed. — Our Misguided Attitude to these. — The Incapables. — Segregation Ultimately Required for their Elimination. — Incapables to be Treated like Chronic Hospital Patients. — FOOTNOTES
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. COMPETITION. — Competition of Brain against Brain. — Does the Race show Increased Brain Capacity? — The Neolithic compared with the Modern English Skulls. — Abeyance of Brain Development since Neolithic Times. — Social Communities do not permit of the Destruction of the Less Intellectually Capable. — Human Brain Power results merely in Wealth Accumulation. — Further Study of Individual Competition. — Those Competing are Handicapped by Property. [26] — Property is not always acquired by the Most Capable. — Property Holders Less Capable than Property Acquirers. — The Poor Child is scratched against the Rich Child. — Modern Democratic Attempts to equalise the Struggle. — Those who Succeed are Not Always the Best. — FOOTNOTE
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. STERILITY OF THE CAPABLES. — Are the More Capable Relatively Sterile? — If so, we are Breeding from our Incapables. — Capable and Ambitious Men Marry Late in Life. — Many Unmarried Persons among Upper Classes. — Lower Class Marriages are the Most Prolific. — Their Infant Mortality is Greater. — Artificial Restriction of the Family. — Fertility of French and English Marriages Contrasted. — Possible Swamping of the Capables by the Incapables. — Artificial Restrictions at Present Most Disastrous. — FOOTNOTES
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. OBLIGATION IN PARENTHOOD. — Are we prepared to carry out Selective Methods? — Rights of the Individual, and Obligations to the Community. — Rights of Children and our Obligation to them. — Our Sense of Obligation is Developing. — Social Philosophers and Social Reformers. — Segregation is Not yet Practicable. — Segregation no New Idea, and Ultimately a Necessary Practice. — The Masses must be Taught the Main Facts of Heredity and Evolution. — The End and Aim of Marriage. — Our False Ideas regarding Marriage. — The Stream of Life. — FOOTNOTE
12. 12.APPENDIX. — FOOTNOTES
13. 13.SOCIAL SCIENCE SERIES. SCARLET CLOTH, EACH 2s. 6d. — DOUBLE VOLUMES, 3s. 6d.

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