Note 4 — I HISTORICAL
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Mr. Roper in his book quoted above exaggerates the attention paid in early times to quality. He says, for instance, when speaking of infanticide and similar practices, that ‘these barbaric eugenics ... were concerned with questions both of quantity and of quality’ (p. 11). As will be pointed out later, these practices were in fact primarily concerned with quantity; such bearing as they had upon quality was incidental.