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intellectual or physical weaknesses. Just because
Galton does not believe in the inheritance of
acquired characteristics, selection has the
greatest significance for him.
On the other side, he advocates using all
means to encourage such marriages, where
the family on both sides gives promise of
distinguished offspring. For him, as later
for Nietzsche, the purpose of married life
is the production of strong, able
personalities.
Galton makes it plain that civilised man,
by his sympathy with weak, inefficient
individuals, has helped to continue their
existence. This tendency on its own side has
lessened the possibility of the efficient
individuals to continue the species. Wallace, too,
and several others, have on different occasions
declared that men in relation to this question
must have harder hearts, if the human race
is not to become inferior. The moral, social,
and sympathetic factors, they say, which in
humanity work against the law of the survival
of the fittest, and have made it possible for
the lower type, to continue and to multiply in
excess, must give way to new points of view
where certain moral and social questions are
concerned. So the natural law will be
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