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her knees and devoutly thanked God that she
had been allowed to be the witness of the
great wonder of the development of the
human being from the beginning. The same
feeling caused her in her novels to expound
the duty of voluntary limitation of population.
She was pained by the thought of the fate
endured by children, when they were so
numerous that their parents were unable to
maintain and educate them. This part of the
subject of the right of the child called forth
in all countries books for and against it.
Everywhere the question is discussed. I shall
briefly handle the differences of opinion about
other sides of the right of the child.
In Francis Galton’s celebrated work,
Hereditary Genius, almost all has been said
that is required to-day from the point of view
of the improvement of the race. Galton, as
early as the seventies, opposed Darwin’s view
that acquired characteristics were inherited.
In this respect he had a fellow-champion in
the German Weissmann, who on his side was
opposed, among others, by the English
Darwinian Romanes.
Galton invented from a Greek word a name
for the science of the amelioration of the race,
Eugenics. He showed that civilised man, so
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