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eugenics
/juˈdʒɛnɪks/
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What does eugenics mean?
noun
- A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.
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IPA pronunciation
/juˈdʒɛnɪks/
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The University of London has adopted this definition, where a chair of Eugenics has been founded.
Our debt to the science of Eugenics is great in that it directs our attention to the biological nature of humanity.
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There followed a period of “negative eugenics” which must have been an appalling sacrifice.
Indeed, the foundations for a science called Eugenics, which purposes to improve the human race in this way, have already been laid.
Now all our sociology and eugenics and the rest of it are not so much materialist as confusedly Calvinist, they are chiefly occupied in educating the child before he exists.