It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The Cleveland Medical Journal - Page 8431912Full view - About this book
| Mukti Jain Campion - 1995 - 630 pages
...pox. Thus the weak members of society propagate their kind... excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. (Darwin 1871) As Stephen Trombley demonstrates in his brilliantly researched and written book The Right... | |
| Theresa Marteau, Martin Richards - 1996 - 384 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed, (pp. 133-4,2ndedn.) In many industrialised societies, including Britain and the United States, eugenic... | |
| John Thomas Scopes - 1997 - 356 pages
...directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, exceiîting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason,... | |
| David J. Peterson - 1999 - 214 pages
...care wrongly directed leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; except in the case of man himself hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. He adds. They commit an unquestionable injury (as they) put a stop to that natural process of elimination... | |
| Stephen R. L. Clark - 2000 - 352 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aspiring middle classes, and the deserving poor, were best of breed. VVeismann's Law distinguishes... | |
| John Offer - 2000 - 696 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed."38 Darwin added, however, that even if men could restrain their sympathy for the less fortunate... | |
| Andrew Bainham, Martin Richards, Shelley Day Sclater - 2002 - 359 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed" (pp. 133-4). But despite such arguments there was no widespread movement for planned selective breeding.8... | |
| James M. White, David M. Klein - 2002 - 304 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to hreed. (Darwin, 1880, pp. 130-134, quoted in Martindale, 1960, pp. 163-164) Statements that confused... | |
| Jane Goodall - 2002 - 294 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.'3 The work of Darwin's cousin Francis Galton was a strong influence on this line of argument,... | |
| Stephen R. L. Clark - 2006 - 274 pages
...wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed." Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (i 871; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981), vol. i,... | |
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