Part 1 — INDEX OF NAMES

Aristotle, 262

—— on motherhood, 167

—— on racial decay, 256, 257

——, “Politics,” by, 167

Arnold, Matthew, 289

——, Thomas, 289

Asquith, H. H., 234

Bach, 300

—— family, the, 289

Bacon on the command of Nature, 13, 26, 41

Balfour, A. J., 228

——, ——, on decadence, 234, 279, 280

——, ——, on intemperance, 235

——, ——, on legislation, 233

——, ——, on Licensing Bill of 1908, 233

——, ——, on politics, 286

Ballantyne, Dr., on the unborn infant, 320

Barker, Ernest, on the destruction of marriage, 167

Bateson, Prof. W., “Methods and Scope of Genetics,” by, 306

Bateson, Prof. W., on education, 120

——, ——, on Mendelism, 306

Beethoven, 127, 146, 289, 292

Bertillon, M., on marital longevity, 192

Biffen, Prof., and his experiments on wheat, 109

Booth, the Rt. Hon. Charles, on the extent of starvation, 82

Bouchacourt on the care of motherhood, 145

Bourneville, on lead poisoning, 247

Branthwaite, Dr. R. Welsh, 228, 238

——, ——, “Inebriety, Its Causation and Control,” by, 217 (note), 319

——, ——, on alcoholism as a symptom of degeneracy, 217

Brieux, “Les Avariés”, 252

Brooks, Graham, on the Negro race, xi

Brouardel, parental morphinomania, 212

Browning, Robert, 135

Buckle, 267

Buddha, 146

Bulstrode, Dr., on tuberculosis, 181 (note)

Burchell, 52

Burns, the Rt. Hon. John, on motherhood, 32

Byron on the decay of nations, 255

Cakebread, Jane, the case of, 222, 225, 228, 238

Carlyle, Thomas, 309

——, ——, on history, 254 (note)

——, ——, “The French Revolution,” by, 254 (note)

Chatterton-Hill, George, “Heredity and Selection in Sociology,” by, 311

Chesterton, G. K., on eugenics, 158 (note)

Clouston, T. S., “The Hygiene of Mind,” by, 319

Cobden, Richard, 17

Cohn on the multiplication of bacteria, 160

Coleridge, 262

Combemale, experiments of, in alcoholism, 211

Constable, “Poverty and Hereditary Genius,” by, 308

Copernicus, 180

Cottrell, Mr., on the population of London, 76

Crackanthorpe, Mr. Montague, on the birth rate, 95

——, ——, “Population and Progress,” by, 315

Crichton-Browne, Sir James, on education, 125

Crookes, Sir William, 85

——, ——, on the wheat supply, 80

——, ——, “The Wheat Problem,” by, 80

Darwin, Charles, 42, 236, 296, 301, 307, 313

——, ——, and the effect of music on plants, 127

——, ——, centenary of the birth of, vii

——, ——, his talented ancestry and kindred, 289

——, ——, on degeneration, 171

——, ——, on national rise and decline, 275 (note)

——, ——, on natural selection, 83, 137, 260, 261

——, ——, on sexual selection, 67, 190, 197

——, ——, on the elephant, 72 (note)

——, ——, on the future, 293

——, ——, on the multiplication of the unfit, 227, 279

——, ——, on the queen bee, 44

——, ——, on vitality and muscularity, 67 (note)

——, ——, Ruskin on, 95

——, ——, “The Descent of Man,” by, 171, 191, 197, 279, 311

——, ——, “The Origin of Species,” by, 43, 73 (note), 311

Darwin, Erasmus, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, 289, 290

——, Francis, 290

——, Sir George, 290

Demme and parental alcoholism, 212

Disraeli on circumstances, 149

Down, Dr. Langdon, on drunkenness and the feeble-minded, 219

Dunlop, Dr. A. R., on habitual drunkenness, 219

Eccles, McAdam, on alcohol and the racial organs, 209

——, ——, on drunkenness, 221

Ellis, Havelock, “A Study of British Genius,” by, 308

——, ——, “Man and Woman,” by, 318

——, ——, on drunkenness, 219

——, ——, on sexual selection, 202, 204

——, ——, on socialism and education, 132

——, ——, “Sexual Selection in Man,” by, 202

Emerson on mass versus mind, 96

—— on the morality of the universe, 37

Empedocles on survival value, 46

Epictetus on fools, 130

Etienne on opinion as ruler, 234

Féré on alcohol, 207

Ferrier, Prof. David, on habitual drunkenness, 219

Finot, Jean, on the Negro race, xi

——, ——, “Race Prejudice,” by, 318

Fleck, Dr., on drunkenness and the feeble-minded, 219

Forel, Prof. August, 17, 137

——, ——, “Die Sexuel Frage,” by 130, 242, 253, 320

——, ——, “Hygiene of Nerves and Mind,” by, 242, 319

——, ——, on alcohol as a racial poison, 244

——, ——, on alcoholism and heredity, 242

——, ——, on education, 129, 130

——, ——, on our duty to posterity, 35

——, ——, on the future of the race, 171

——, ——, on the nervous system, 53

——, ——, on the sexual education of children, 139

Galton, Francis, vii, 110, 206, 293, 307

——, ——, and acquired characters, the non-transmission of, 114 (note), 216, 259

——, ——, and biometrics, xiii

——, ——, and eugenics, positive and negative, 172

——, ——, and G. B. Shaw, 155

——, ——, and the law of regression towards mediocrity, 289

——, ——, “Eugenics as a Factor in Religion,” by, 315

——, ——, “Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims,” by, 314

——, ——, “Hereditary Genius,” by 107, 114, 289, 302 (note), 307, 308

——, ——, his kinship to Darwin, 289

——, ——, “Inquiries into Human Faculty,” by, 92, 128, 290, 308

——, ——, “Memories of my Life,” by, vii, 308

——, ——, “Natural Inheritance,” by, 308

——, ——, on ancestry, a rational pride in, 144

——, ——, on breeding for ability, 153

——, ——, —— energy, 67, 153

——, ——, —— health, 145, 153

——, ——, on civic worth, 68

——, ——, on civilisation, 117

——, ——, on energy, 193 (note), 290

——, ——, on eugenics, the meaning and the aims of, 157, 298, 315

——, ——, on functionally produced modifications, the non-inheritance of, 211

——, ——, on genius, hereditary, 107, 114

——, ——, ——, the quality of, 114 (note)

——, ——, on human intelligence, 41

——, ——, on human variety, 298

——, ——, on marriage, eugenic, 168

——, ——, ——, late, 92

——, ——, ——, the subsidisation of, 200

——, ——, on motherhood, the subsidisation of, 157

——, ——, on national eugenics, 115

——, ——, on national rise and decline, 279

——, ——, on public opinion, the formation of, 15

——, ——, on society, the eugenic value of the various classes of, 104

——, ——, on sociology, the duties of, 275

——, ——, on the desirable qualities, 299

——, ——, on the future of man, 302

——, ——, on the production of genius, 288

——, ——, on the production of talent, 292

——, ——, “Probability the Foundation of Eugenics,” by, 315

——, ——, “Restrictions in Marriage,” by, 185, 204, 315

——, ——, “Studies in National Eugenics,” by, 315

——, ——, “The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed, under existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment,” by, 314

Gaskell, Dr. W. H., “The Origin of Vertebrates,” by, 50 (note)

Geddes, Prof. Patrick, on Government, 122

——, ——, “The Evolution of Sex,” by, and Prof. J. A. Thomson, 312

Gibbon, 271 (note)

—— on history, 254

—— on the necessity for advance or retrogression, 266

Gladstone, Herbert, and the treatment of chronic inebriates by the London County Council, 222, 223

Godwin, William, on literature, 262 (note)

Goethe on activity, 291 (note)

—— on fate and chance, 12

—— on ignorance, 223

—— on marriage, 168

—— on the education of race, 136

Gorst, Sir John, “The Children of the Nation,” by, 319

Hall, Prof. Stanley, “Adolescence,” by, 318

——, ——, “Youth, its Education, Regimen and Hygiene,” by, 318

Helvetius on the influence of education, 128

Hobbes, Thomas, on “Words”, 106

——, ——, “Leviathan,” by, 106 (note)

Holmes, Mr. Thomas, on habitual drunkenness, 220

Horsley, Sir Victor, and Mary D. Sturge, “Alcohol and the Human Body,” by, 319

Howard, G. E., “A History of Matrimonial Institutions,” by, 312

Huxley, 29, 40, 58, 280, 281

——, “Evolution and Ethics,” by, 26

—— on cosmic nature, 26, 36, 39 (note)

—— on Pasteur, 94

—— on public opinion, 135

—— on the multiplication of the unfit, 227

Im Thurn, Mr., on marriage customs of Guiana, 184

Jones, Dr. Robert, on the case of Jane Cakebread, 328

Jones, W. H. S., “Malaria: a Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome,” by, 319

Joubert, 18

Kant, 4, 87

—— on the influence of education, 128

Keats, 46, 50

Kellogg, Vernon L., “Darwinism To-day,” by, 312

Kelvin, Lord, his services to life, 95

Kipling, Rudyard, and imperialism, 244, 245

——, ——, on breeds in the making, 245

——, ——, on emigration, 9

Kirby, Miss, on the feeble-minded, 220

Kirkup, Thomas, on Malthusianism, 84

Koch and tuberculosis, 180

Lamarck, 36

—— on inheritance of acquired characters, 134, 258, 259, 261

—— versus Weismann, 206, 207, 208

Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on man, the controller of nature, 41

——, ——, on the multiplication of man, 9, 71, 72

——, ——, on the struggle for existence, 42, 280

——, ——, “The Kingdom of Man,” by, 41 (note)

Legrain on alcoholism and heredity, 220

Leonardo da Vinci, 264

Letourneau, Prof., “The Evolution of Marriage,” by, 312

Lewin on lead poisoning, 248

Lister, Lord, his services to life, 95

Livingstone, Dr., on African marriage customs, 184

Lock, R. H., “Variation, Heredity and Evolution,” by, 311

Lombroso, criminological work of, 177

London, Bishop of, on the falling birth-rate, 96

Love, Dr., on deaf-mutism, 174

Lowell, J. R., on human suffering, 130

Lucretius, 12, 260

Lydston, G. F., “The Diseases of Society: the Vice and Crime Problem,” by, 318

MacCunn, Prof., on the infant mind, 124

——, ——, “The Making of Character,” by, 124

MacDougal, Dr. T. D., on “Heredity and Environic Forces”, 210

McDougall, Dr. W., on infant mortality, 23

——, ——, on transmissible characters, 117

——, ——, “Social Psychology,” by, 117

Magee, Archbishop, 243

Malthus, T. R., 17, 313

——, ——, his theory, 80, 83

——, ——, ignorance as to his essay, 85

——, ——, importance of his doctrine to-day, 85

——, ——, “The Principles of Population,” by, 83, 85, 312

Marcus Aurelius, 298

Marshall, Dr. C. F., on alcohol and syphilis, 253

——, ——, “Syphilology” by, 253

Maudsley, Dr., on eugenics, 187

Mendel, the theory of, 108, 307

Meredith, George, 37, 231, 287

——, ——, “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,” by, 112 (note)

Metchnikoff, on age at marriage, 90

——, “The Nature of Man,” by, 90

Mill, James, 289

——, John Stuart, 182, 289

——, ——, on nature, 38

Milton, 292

Morgan, Prof. Lloyd, “Survival Value”, 46

Mott, Dr. F. W., on habitual drunkenness, 219

Mozart, 126

Napoleon, the wars of, cause of reversed selection in France, 284

Newman, Dr. George, on the falling birth-rate, 86 (note)

——, ——, “Infant Mortality,” by, 86, 319

Newsholme, Dr. A., on tuberculosis, 182

——, ——, “The Prevention of Tuberculosis,” by, 319

Newton, Sir Isaac, 6, 146, 288, 300, 301

——, saved by motherhood, 150

Nietzsche and the Darwinian theory, 51

—— and the super-man theory, 25

—— and “transvaluation,” 101

—— on organic evolution, 158

Oliver, Sir Thomas, on lead poisoning, 247, 248, 249

——, ——, “Diseases of Occupation,” by, 247 (note), 319

Palestrina, 127

Palmerston, Lord, 131

Parsons, Dr. Elsie Clews, on diminution of offspring, 162

——, ——, on parentage, 161, 162

——, ——, “The Family,” by, 314

Pascal, 52

Pasteur and tuberculosis, 180

——, his value to the French nation, 94

—— on the abolition of disease, 72

Paterson, W. R., on slavery, the cause of the fall of empires, 281

——, ——, “The Nemesis of Nations,” by, 281

Pearson, Prof. Karl, 314

——, ——, and biometrics, xiii

——, ——, “National Life from the Standpoint of Science,” by, 279, 315

——, ——, on national rise and decline, 275 (note), 279

——, ——, on the multiplication of the yellow races, 78

——, ——, “The Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics,” by, 315

Pericles, 292

Petrie, Prof. Flinders, “Janus in Modern Life,” by, 22

——, ——, on infantile mortality, 22

Plato and motherhood, 166

—— and the destruction of the family, 169, 313

—— on the duty of Governments, 276

—— on racial decay, 256, 257

—— on the sanctity of marriage, 313

—— on the State as mother, 313

——, “The Republic,” of, 166, 313, 314

Pope, on genius and insanity, 176

Potts, Dr. W. A., on “The Relation of Alcohol to Feeble-mindedness”, 214, 216

Ranke, Prof., on the mind of man, 59

Ravenhill, Miss Alice, on “Education for Motherhood”, 32

——, ——, on the education of girls, 320

Reid, Dr. Archdall, on alcohol, 206, 211

——, ——, on humanitarianism and deterioration, 24, 25

——, ——, on the marriage of drunkards, 235

——, ——, on the resistance of the germ-plasm, 250

——, ——, “Alcoholism, A Study in Heredity,” by, 319

——, ——, “The Principles of Heredity,” by, 311

Rembrandt, 4

Rennert on lead poisoning, 247, 248

Rentoul, Dr. R. R., on the sterilisation of mental and physical degenerates, 316

——, ——, “Race Culture or Race Suicide,” by, 316

Reynolds, Sir Alfred, on the treatment of inebriates, 226, 230

Roche, Sir Boyle, on posterity, 11

Roques on lead poisoning, 247

Ross, Prof. Ronald, “Malaria, A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome,” introduced by, 319

——, ——, on malaria as a cause of national decay, 260, 282

Rowntree, B. Seebohm, on the extent of starvation, 82

Ruskin, John, “Munera Pulveris,” by, 302 (note), 320

——, “Time and Tide,” by, 96, 131, 254 (note), 296, 320

——, “Unto this Last,” by, 320

—— on Darwin, 95

—— on education and inequality, 131

—— on life the only wealth, 17, 133, 269

—— on marriage, 296

—— on mass versus mind, 96

—— on posterity, 287

—— on the duty of Governments, 18, 276

—— on the future of man, 302

—— on the manufacture of souls, 270

—— on the neglect of children, 145

—— on the neglect of woman, 145

—— on true history, 254 (note)

—— on work, 264

St. Francis, 301

Saleeby, Dr., “Alcohol and Infancy,” by, 214

——, ——, and G. B. Shaw, his controversy on marriage with, 157

——, ——, “Evolution, the Master Key,” by, 147

——, ——, “Health, Strength and Happiness,” by, 119 (note)

——, ——, “Individualism and Collectivism,” by, 101 (note)

——, ——, “Obstacles to Eugenics,” by, 175 (note)

——, ——, on biology and history, 254 (note)

——, ——, on London's inebriates, the case of, 226

——, ——, on progress, 262

——, ——, on the survival-value of religion, 303

——, ——, on widows and orphans made by alcohol, 245

——, ——, “The Essential Factor of Progress,” by, 262

Salisbury, Lord, his attack on evolution, 45

——, ——, on Spain a dying nation, 268

Sandow, 135

—— and the development of physique, 64

Scharlieb, Mrs., on maternal alcoholism, 214 (note)

——, ——, “The Drink Problem,” by, 214 (note)

Schopenhauer on love intrigue, 197 (note)

Schubert, 46, 50

Seton, Ernest Thompson, on animal marriage, 163

Shakespeare, 6, 126, 146, 245, 255, 287, 293, 301

——, ancestry of, 107–109

——, quoted, xii, 58 (note), 97, 231, 278

Shaw, Dr. Claye, on maternal alcoholism, 213

——, George Bernard, 85, 169

——, ——, on eugenics, 155, 156

——, ——, on heredity, 102

——, ——, on marriage, his controversy with Dr. Saleeby, 157

——, ——, on motherhood, 166

Shaw, Dr. Claye, on the State as mother, 156

Shelley, 131

Simpson, Sir James, on the inheritance of acquired characters, 136

Sims, G. R., on children, the protection of, 237

——, ——, on habitual drunkards, the treatment of, 222

——, ——, “on the cry of the children”, 295

——, ——, “The Black Stain,” by, 237, 319

——, ——, “The Cry of the Children,” by, 237, 319

Smith, Adam, 17

Socrates, 313, 314

Sombart, Dr., on the population of Germany, 77

Sophocles, quoted, 52

Spencer, Herbert, 4, 9, 85, 296, 300

——, absence of early education of, 120

—— and evolution, 43, 48

—— and functionally produced modifications, 111

—— and his reply to Lord Salisbury's attack on evolution, 45

—— and Huxley, 26

—— and “social organisms”, 256

—— on the cosmic process, 25

—— on the defencelessness of man, 58

—— on education, 131

—— on education for parenthood, 140

—— on human fertility, 89, 90, 91, 92

—— on individuation and genesis, 288

—— on marital longevity, 191, 192

—— on marriage, 164

—— on natural selection, 35

—— on parenthood, 88

—— on the future of man, 301, 302

—— on the laws of multiplication, 86, 87, 266

—— on woman and selection for marriage, 193

——, the ancestry of, 152

——, the “Autobiography” of, 35, 58, 65, 152

——, “The Data of Ethics,” by, 302 (note)

——, “the survival of the fittest”, 23 (note), 43, 44, 84, 260

——, “Education,” by, 317

——, “The Principles of Biology,” by, 86, 312

——, “The Study of Sociology,” by, 192, 317

Spinoza, 46, 50

Stark, Dr., on marital longevity, 192

Sturge, Mary D., and Sir Victor Horsley, “Alcohol and the Human Body,” by, 319

Sullivan, Dr. W. C., “Alcoholism,” by, 211, 242, 319

——, ——, on alcohol and alcoholism, 207, 211–213, 220

Sutherland on parental care, 162

Theognis on pecuniary inheritance, 101

—— on the duty of Governments, 276

Thomas, W. I., “Sex and Society,” by, 317

Thompson, Francis, 128

Thomson, Prof. J. A., “Heredity,” by, 99, 305

——, ——, on “inheritance”, 110 (note)

——, ——, on race culture, 99

——, ——, on reversion, 111

——, ——, “The Evolution of Sex,” by, and Patrick Geddes, 312

——, ——, translator of Weismann, 311

——, M. R., translator of Weismann, 311

Thoreau, quoted, 173

Tille on man the wealth of nations, 17

Tintoretto, 288

Turner, Sir William, on the human foot, 61

Urquhart, Dr. A. R., on habitual drunkenness, 219

Vernon, H. M., “Variations in Animals and Plants,” by, 311

Villemin and tuberculosis, 180

Waddington, Mr. Quintin, his translation of Aulus Gellius, 271 (note)

Wagner, “Siegfried”, 303

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 314

——, ——, on matrimonial choice by women, 194

——, ——, on natural selection, 83

Watson, William, the patriotism of, x

Watts, G. F., 4

Wedgwood, Josiah, maternal grandfather of Charles Darwin, 289

Weismann, August, 206, 211, 216, 248, 280

——, his controversy with Lamarck, 208

——, on parental alcoholism, 208–210

——, “The Germ-Plasm: a Theory in Heredity,” by, 208, 311

——, “The Evolution Theory,” by, 311

Wellington, Duke of, 128

Wells, H. G., on the multiplication of the unfit, 14

—— on Spencer's terminology, 43, 44, 49

Westermarck, Dr. E., on marriage, 158, 165

——, ——, on the control of marriage, 184

——, ——, “The History of Human Marriage,” by, 312

Wordsworth, 4, 244, 301, 302

——, absence of early education of, 120

—— on the decay of nations, 284

——, quoted, 35, 277, 300

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