How Long to Read Darwinism and Race Progress

How Long Does it Take to Read Darwinism and Race Progress?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Darwinism and Race Progress by John Haycroft

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A superb treatise in evolution and eugenics from one of Britain's leading professors of physiology and discoverer of the anti-coagulant hirudin. Professor Haycraft discusses race, Darwin's Law of Selection, Galton's work, and the hereditary nature of diseases, insanity, alcoholism, crime and racial degeneration. He moves on to detail healthy eugenics, the outbreeding of the "capables" by the "incapables" and the necessity for the best in society to expand their numbers at the expense of the worst. CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTORY Muscle and Brain versus Political Organisation CHAPTER II: THE STANDPOINT OF BIOLOGISTS Lamarck's View on Heredity-Darwin's Law of Selection-Three Ideas involved in Selection-The Facts of Evolutive Selection known to the Gardener and Breeder CHAPTER III: CAUSES AND SIGNS OF PHYSICAL DETERIORATION Modern Care for the Individual-Preventive Medicine-Physical Degeneration of the Race already indicated CHAPTER IV: INSANITY AND ALCOHOLISM Nerve Derangements, Insanity-Marriages of Insane Persons-Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a Sign of Mental Instability-How it is that the Production of Children by Diseased Parents is tolerated-The Necessity for producing Posterity out of our Best Types CHAPTER V: THE CRIMINALS, INCAPABLES, AND THOSE IN DISTRESS Crime is often an Acquired Habit-The Innate Criminal-The Jukes Family-Intermarriage does not stamp out Criminal Tendencies-Segregation ultimately required for their Elimination-Incapables to be treated like Chronic Hospital Patients CHAPTER VI: COMPETITION Competition of Brain against Brain-Does the Race show Increased Brain Capacity ?- Modern Democratic Attempts to equalise the Struggle-Those who succeed are not always the Best CHAPTER VII: STERILITY OF THE CAPABLES Are the More Capable relatively sterile ?-If so, we are breeding from our Incapables-Capable and Ambitious Men marry Late in Life-Possible Swamping of the Capables by the Incapables-Artificial Restrictions at present most disastrous CHAPTER VIII: OBLIGATION IN PARENTHOOD Are we prepared to carry out Selective Methods?-Rights of the Individual, and Obligations to the. Community-Rights of Children and our Obligation to them-The Masses must be taught the Main Facts of Heredity and Evolution-The End and Aim of Marriage-Our False Ideas regarding Marriage-The Stream of Life.

How long is Darwinism and Race Progress?

Darwinism and Race Progress by John Haycroft is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Darwinism and Race Progress Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Darwinism and Race Progress aloud.

What Reading Level is Darwinism and Race Progress?

Darwinism and Race Progress is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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