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CHAPTER

I. NATURE OR NURTURE? 1

II. MODIFICATION OF THE GERM-PLASM 25

III. DIFFERENCES AMONG MEN 75

IV. THE INHERITANCE OF MENTAL CAPACITIES 84

V. THE LAWS OF HEREDITY 99

VI. NATURAL SELECTION 116

VII. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT 147

VIII. DESIRABILITY OF RESTRICTIVE EUGENICS 167

IX. THE DYSGENIC CLASSES 176

X. METHODS OF RESTRICTION 184

XI. THE IMPROVEMENT OF SEXUAL SELECTION 211

XII. INCREASING THE MARRIAGE RATE OF THE SUPERIOR 237

XIII. INCREASE OF THE BIRTH-RATE OF THE SUPERIOR 255

XIV. THE COLOR LINE 280

XV. IMMIGRATION 298

XVI. WAR 318

XVII. GENEALOGY AND EUGENICS 329

XVIII. THE EUGENIC ASPECT OF SOME SPECIFIC REFORMS 352
TAXATION 352
BACK TO THE FARM MOVEMENT 355
DEMOCRACY 360
SOCIALISM 362
CHILD LABOR 368
COMPULSORY EDUCATION 369
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND TRAINING 371
MINIMUM WAGE 374
MOTHER'S PENSIONS 375
HOUSING 376
FEMINISM 378

OLD AGE PENSIONS 384
SEX HYGIENE MOVEMENT 385
TRADES UNIONISM 388
PROHIBITION 389
PEDAGOGICAL CELIBACY 390

XIX. RELIGION AND EUGENICS 393

XX. EUGENICS AND EUTHENICS 402