“A child's thoughts and the love he is ever ready to give, are occupied, moreover, with her alone from whom he derives his food, and soon he has neither feeling nor affection for the mother who bore him. The foundations of the filial feelings with which we are born being thus sapped and undermined, whatever affection children thus brought up may seem to have for father and mother, for the most part is not natural love, but the result of social convention.’” [81] Cf. the similar dicta of Darwin and Pearson (p. 279). [82] _National Life from the Standpoint of Science_, p. 99. [83] “Decadence,” Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, by the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P., delivered at Newnham College, January 25, 1908. (Cambridge University Press.) [84] “Restless activity proves the man,” as Goethe says. [85] _Munera Pulveris_, par. 6. [86] _The Data of Ethics_, par. 97. [87] _Hereditary Genius_, Prefatory Chapter to Edition of 1902, pp. x. and xxvii. [88] “The Survival-Value of Religion,” _Fortnightly Review_, April, 1906. INDEX OF SUBJECTS Ability, inheritance of, 114 “Acquired characters,” defined, 111 Acquired characters, Lamarckian theory of the transmission of, 283 ---- progress, 262 ---- ----, dangers of, 265 ---- ---- _versus_ natural selection, 266 Acquirements, transmission of, by the art of writing, 261 ---- _versus_ inborn characters, 101 Acromegaly, 67 “Adam Bede”, 298 “Adolescence,” by Prof. Stanley Hall, 318 Alcohol, a racial poison, 211, 259 ----, an agent of selection, 206 ---- and eugenics, 206 ----, and heredity, 206 ---- and human degeneration, 242 ---- and parenthood, 241 ----, effects of, on the racial organs, 208, 209 (_note_) ----, elimination by, 206 ----, the friends of, 243 ---- trade, the, and widows and orphans, 245 “Alcohol and Infancy,” by Dr. Saleeby, 214 “Alcohol and the Human Body,” by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge, 319 Alcoholic Imperialism, 244 Alcoholism and the London County Council, 206 ----, both a cause and a symptom of degeneracy, 217 ----, parental, its influence on the offspring, 211 “Alcoholism, a Chapter in Social Pathology,” by Dr. W. C. Sullivan, 211, 242, 319 “Alcoholism, a Study in Heredity,” by G. Archdall Reid, 319 Ancestral inheritance, the law of, xiv Ancestry of men of genius, 152 ----, paternal and maternal, of equal importance, 152 Animal life and monogamy, 163 ---- marriage, 162 Animals and promiscuity, 163 ----, the higher, and monogamy, 163 Army, inferior intelligence of the, to that of the Navy, 98 “Atavism,” defined, 111 “Attic Nights, The,” of Aulus Gellius, 271 (_note_) Australia, control of drunkards in, 242 “Autobiography” of Herbert Spencer, 58, 152 “Avariés, Les,” by Brieux, 252 Bacteria, domination of, 93 ----, rate of increase of, 160 Bibliography of eugenics, 305