Francis Galton

Essays in Eugenics Francis Galton

CONTENTS: The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims Restrictions in Marriage Studies in National Eugenics Eugenics as a Factor in Religion Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics Local Associations for Promoting Eugenics Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author.