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" The mentally better stock in the nation is not reproducing itself at the same rate as it did of old ; the less able, and the less energetic, are more fertile than the better stocks. No scheme of wider or more thorough education will bring up in the scale... "
The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers - Page 21
1908
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Publications of the American Statistical Association, Volume 9

1905 - 396 pages
...educatianis of small service, unless it be applied to an intelligent race of men." The author continues : "No scheme of wider or more thorough education will...fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community. Let us have a census of the effective size of families among the intellectual classes now and a comparison...
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Biometrika, Volume 3

1904 - 644 pages
...guided. The only account we can give of this on the basis of the results we have reached to-night is that we are ceasing as a nation to breed intelligence as...fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community. Let us have a census of the effective size of families among the intellectual classes now and a comparison...
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Publications of the American Statistical Association, Volume 9

American Statistical Association - 1905 - 396 pages
...education.™ of small service, unless it be applied to an intelligent race of men." The author continues: "No scheme of wider or more thorough education will...fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community. Let us have a census of the effective size of families among the intellectual classes now and a comparison...
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Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath Or Human Degenerate

Albert Wilson - 1910 - 548 pages
...have reached to-night, is, that we are ceasing as a nation to breed intelligence, as we did 50 to 100 years ago. The mentally better stock in the nation...fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community. We stand, I venture to think, at the commencement of an epoch, which will be marked by a dearth of...
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Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health, Volume 15

1907 - 798 pages
...as it did of old ; the less able, and the less energetic, are more fertile than the better stocks. The only remedy, if one be possible at all, is to...of the good and the bad stocks in the community." None but the mentally and physically fit should be allowed to take part in the higher functions of...
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Work and Wages: In Continuation of Lord Brassey's 'Work and Wages' and ...

Sydney John Chapman - 1914 - 400 pages
...as it did of old ; the less able, and the less energetic, are more fertile than the better stocks. The only remedy, if one be possible at all, is to alter the relative fertility of the good and bad stocks in the community. Let us have a census of the effective size of families among the intellectual...
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Herbert Spencer Lectures: Decennial Issue, 1905-1914

1916 - 406 pages
...be done, and the amount of change in racial qualities that could reasonably be anticipated, did not at first attract investigators. The idea of effecting...in Marriage,' ' Studies in National Eugenics,' and 1 Eugenics as a factor in Religion ', which were published in the Memoirs of that Society with comments...
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Herbert Spencer Lectures: Decennial Issue, 1905-1914

1916 - 406 pages
...improvement of the Human Breed under the existing conditions of Law and Sentiment ' (Nature, November i, 1901, Report of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington,...good and the bad stocks in the community. Again in 7904, having been asked by the newly-formed Sociological Society to contribute a memoir, I did so on...
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The Common Weal

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher - 1924 - 330 pages
...intelligence, hereditary weaklings to the level of hereditary strength. The only remedy, if one is possible at all, is to alter the relative fertility of the good and bad stocks in the community.' 1 Nobody can doubt that we are here faced by a question so important...
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Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940

Simon Szreter - 2002 - 734 pages
...rate as it did of old; the less able and the less energetic are more fertile than the better stocks. The only remedy, if one be possible at all, is to...fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community. Let us have a census of the effective size of families among the intellectual classes now and a comparison...
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