It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

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We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.