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A word of explanation of the subject is perhaps necessary. By sociobiology is here meant the study which has gradually been taking shape since the development of evolutionary biology and its growing application to men as a social animal. It deals in the main with the selection values of various social and cultural agencies, in short, the problem of social selection. It will be out of place here to give even a brief account of the history and the present status of this study in the West. Suffice it to say that the fundamental principles involved have much in common with those found in the study of theoretical eugenics, first named by Francis Galton in 1883.
(Originally published in Chinese Students’ Monthly, Vol. 21, No. 1, November, 1925; a revised version was published in The China Critic, Vol. VI, Nos. 14/15, April 6/13, 1933, by the name of: Quentin Pan)
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These translations and others that follow are taken from the popular edition of the Four Books in English, with slight modifications.
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A disciple of Confucius well known for his literary attainments. He was then the chief administrator of the city of Wu-cheng.
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In Chinese. The Commercial Press, 1923.
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“Eugenics and China”, Eugenical News, November, 1923.
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The traditional distinction between scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants, and someone adds, soldiers, is mainly professional and although the social value of each is different, there is absolutely no external mechanism which prevents an individual from changing his status.
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Pan, G. (2015). Sociobiological Implications of Confucianism. In: Socio-biological Implications of Confucianism. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44575-4_3
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