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• It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously…
• Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations…
• It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only…
• Whenever you can, count.
• The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of…
• Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either…
• One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves…
• All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
• Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
• We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of…
• The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work…
• What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it…

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