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EVERYONE is agreed as to the desirability of improving the intrinsic qualities of the race, but the difficulty is to know what can wisely be done. The question, What is practicable? is much harder to answer than the question, What is desirable? But towards an answer to the more difficult question this very competent book by Mr. Paul Popenoe and Prof. Roswell Hill Johnson makes a definite contribution. “Emphasis has been laid on the practical means by which society may encourage the reproduction of superior persons and discourage that of inferiors.”
Applied Eugenics.
By Paul Popenoe Prof. Roswell Hill Johnson. (Social Science Textbooks.) Pp. xii + 459. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1920.) Price 14s. net.
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Applied Eugenics . Nature 106, 752–753 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106752a0
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