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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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one day bow before scientific proofs. This
hope is not too optimistic.

Wallace pleads not for such absolute regulations
as Galton, in order to prevent the marriages
of the less worthy and to encourage
the marriages of the superior types of
humanity. He perceives that the problem is
tremendously complicated. One thing is, that
the personal attraction of love is extremely
essential from the point of view of the
improvement of the race. If human beings
could be bred like prize cattle, it is not likely
that a superior type of humanity would be
produced. In the Middle Ages, the human
race deteriorated, Galton said, because the
best fled to the monasteries and the worst
reproduced themselves. But if Galton’s strict
requirements had to be carried out in every
case before a marriage could be allowed, not
only would marriage lose its deepest meaning,
but the race also would lose its noblest
inheritance.

But even with a strict limitation of Galton’s
principles and with a wise limitation of
his requirements, science has already shown
the truth of so many of the first, that the
significance of the last, taken as a whole, must
be granted. We know that in the inherited

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