Quote#Science & Reason
At a date when the fixity of races was an established scientific…
Quote byFrancis Galton · 1822–1911
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: New foreword to the 2nd Ed. of Hereditary Genius (1892)..
English (original)
at a date when the fixity of races was an established scientific belief. His central principle consequently was that the mean man is the perfect man. The theory of evolution now assures us of what common sense never doubted---that this principle is radically wrong. The most desirable man is not the one who is mediocre
— Francis Galton
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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
I do not plead guilty to a shallow view of human nature, when I propose to apply, as it were, a foot-rule to its heights and depths.
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it showed the repressive effect of White civilization upon the Negroes