Download or read book Probability the Foundation of Eugenics written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PROBABILITY THE FOUNDATION OF EUGENICS written by FRANCIS. GALTON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Probability the Foundation of Eugenics written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Probability the Foundation of Eugenics Classic Reprint written by Francis Galton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics He ends with 'this is the truth, and let it be your balm.' The poem is a noble conception, founded on the crude cosmogony Of the ancient Greeks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Probability the Foundation of Eugenics Primary Source Edition written by Francis Galton and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Essays in Eugenics written by Francis Galton and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galton was instrumental in the formulation of 'eugenics', which seeks to improve the human stock and prevent the degeneration of genetic potential. He introduced the very word "eugenics" and the phrase "nature versus nature." This book consists of a number of lectures delivered by the author during the early part of the twentieth century dealing with the following topics: The Possible Improvement of the Human Breed under Existing Conditions of Law and Sentiment; Eugenics, its Definition, Scope, and Aims; Restrictions in Marriage Studies in National Eugenics; Eugenics as a Factor in Religion; Probability, the Foundation of Eugenics; and Local Associations for Promoting Eugenics.
Download or read book Eugenics written by Philippa Levine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.
Download or read book The Science and Philosophy of Eugenics a Sure Foundation Upon Which to Build a Pure and Happy Home written by Ellis Benjamin Guild and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. Wise Begetting. I quote from a little book, which should be familiar to all, a translation of part of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. This book is called The Lord's Song, or Song Celestial, and is a book of devotion and profound philosophy. "The elements, the conscious life, the mind, The unseen vital force, the nine strange gates Of the body, and the five domains of sense; Desire, dislike, pleasure and pain, and thought Deep-woven, and persistency of being; These all are wrought on matter by the soul!" I do not know that we could put in so few words any clearer or more complete statement of the potential of each human being, and this is especially pertinent at this particular point in our study of Eugenics. If it is so certainly possible for the soul to so impress matter, to work upon it such wonderful results, what are the limits of the possibilities of father-mother who consciously and intentionally set about the building of a body for the indwelling of a divine spirit? With that wonderful possibility before us we degrade our power to the most inconsequent and frivolous and even debasing uses, or if not that, we simply approach the matter of procreation as a necessary incident to our physical living and let its results come by mere chance without our design or intention. It is not thus that the soul works, and yet so far away have we journeyed from the real purpose of life, the real shrine of the spirit, that one who suggests that the souls of man and woman should enter earnestly into the matter of procreation, is apt to be considered a little less than a lunatic and certainly a visionary dreamer in the minds of men. Yet in our daily experiences with ourselves, as we begin to study our own reality, we find day by...
Download or read book A Life of Sir Francis Galton written by Nicholas W. Gillham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
Download or read book Hereditary Genius written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applied Eugenics written by Paul Popenoe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bernoulli s Fallacy written by Aubrey Clayton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a misunderstanding of probability and its role in making inferences from observations. Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it. He highlights how influential nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures developed a statistical methodology they claimed was purely objective in order to silence critics of their political agendas, including eugenics. Clayton provides a clear account of the mathematics and logic of probability, conveying complex concepts accessibly for readers interested in the statistical methods that frame our understanding of the world. He contends that we need to take a Bayesian approach—that is, to incorporate prior knowledge when reasoning with incomplete information—in order to resolve the crisis. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.
Download or read book The Science and Philosophy of Eugenics A Sure Foundation Upon Which to Build a Pure and Happy Home written by Ellis Benjamin Guild and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hereditary Genius written by Francis Galton and published by Great Minds Series. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton (1822-1911) was so impressed by Darwin's On the Origin of Species that he decided to investigate in detail the implications of inheritance and evolution for the development of outstanding human abilities. By "hereditary genius" Galton meant, "an ability that was exceptionally high and at the same time inborn," and he argued that in the debate over "nature versus nurture" (an expression that he coined) nature always prevails. In 1869, he published this, his first, book on the topic, presenting a good deal of evidence showing that exceptional ability often ran in families. In separate chapters devoted to outstanding professionals ranging from English judges to "wrestlers of the North Country," Galton pointed out that most of these high achievers had relatives who also displayed notable abilities. Based on this statistical sampling, he concluded that eminence in any field was due to hereditary factors. Many greeted these results with skepticism, but Charles Darwin expressed his admiration for Galton's results and later cited his work in The Descent of Man. Galton went on to use this initial research as the basis for a new field, which he called "eugenics," the aim of which was "the betterment of the human race" through "appropriate marriages or abstention from marriage." Although Galton's ideas gained momentum over several decades, they were eventually discredited after being misappropriated by the Nazis as part of their racist ideology. Today, however, with the discovery of heritable diseases, the use of genetic screening to eliminate undesirable traits, sperm banks, and the possibility of "designer babies" and human cloning, Galton's groundbreaking research has gained renewed currency and will be the subject of debate for years to come.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics written by Alison Bashford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel Foundation Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable core text for both teaching and research. Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.
Download or read book Popular Science written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Psychology of Sex Vol 1 6 written by Havelock Ellis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 2549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains three studies which seem to me to be necessary prolegomena to that analysis of the sexual instinct which must form the chief part of an investigation into the psychology of sex. The first sketches the main outlines of a complex emotional state which is of fundamental importance in sexual psychology; the second, by bringing together evidence from widely different regions, suggests a tentative explanation of facts that are still imperfectly known; the third attempts to show that even in fields where we assume our knowledge to be adequate a broader view of the phenomena teaches us to suspend judgment and to adopt a more cautious attitude. So far as they go, these studies are complete in themselves; their special use, as an introduction to a more comprehensive analysis of sexual phenomena, is that they bring before us, under varying aspects, a characteristic which, though often ignored, is of the first importance in obtaining a clear understanding of the facts: the tendency of the sexual impulse to appear in a spontaneous and to some extent periodic manner, affecting women differently from men. This is a tendency which, later, I hope to make still more apparent, for it has practical and social, as well as psychological, implications. Here—and more especially in the study of those spontaneous solitary manifestations which I call auto-erotic—I have attempted to clear the ground, and to indicate the main lines along which the progress of our knowledge in these fields may best be attained.
