Cold Spring Harbor, Micklos, The Science of Eugenics,pg xi
Table of Contents
Part I
Chapter I.
The Science of Eugenics.
The Improvement of the Human Race as Applied to the Responsibility of Bringing Children Into the World -- Weeding Out Degeneracy - Efficiency of Marriage - Physical and Mental Attributes Requisite - Heredity from Parents and Remote Ancestry - Selection, Elimination and Environment - Infancy to Maturity the Critical Periods...1
Chapter II.
The Laws of Nature.
The Proper Age to Marry - The Parental Instinct - Weakening of Physical Power and Its Influence on Offspring - Effect of Mental and Manual Labor on the Instinct of Reproduction in the Species - Financial Considerations... 22
Chapter III.
How to Have Perfect Children.
Child Bearing - Facts for Mothers - How Nature Works - The Mother Sole Arbiter of Her Child's Fate - How Mothers Can Have Perfect Children - Saving Children from Disease...30
Chapter IV.
The Brain of an Infant.
Developing the Brain - An Early Start Makes the Child a Winner - All Healthy Children Have an Equal Chance - How to Inspire Thought and Reason...38
Chapter V.
Recent Scientific Discoveries.
The Brain and Its Operations - Educating the Brain of a Child - Why Children Are Good or Bad - Warding Off Evil - Laying the Foundation for a Brilliant Career...49
Chapter VI.
Preservation of Health.
Physical and Mental Training - How the Human Body is Strengthened - Immunity to Disease ... 57
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