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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.
У меня есть обширная тема [статистика] и есть много, что написать по этой теме, но со всей остротой я осознаю, что мне не хватит литературных талантов, чтобы изложить ее просто и доходчиво, не жертвуя при этом точностью и основательностью.
The long period of the dark ages… is due… in a very considerable degree, to the celebacy enjoined by religious orders on their votaries. Whenever a man or woman was possessed of a gentle nature that fitted… deeds of charity, to meditation, to literature, or to art… they had no refuge elsewhere than in the bosom of the Church. …celibacy. …thus, by a policy so singularly unwise and suicidal… the Church brutalized the breed of our forefathers. …as if she had aimed at selecting the rudest portion of the community to be alone the parents of future generations. She practised the arts which breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish, and stupid natures. …
Hereditary Genius (1869)
The policy of the religious world in Europe… by means of persecutions… brought thousands of the foremost thinkers and men of political aptitudes to the scaffold, or imprisoned them during a large part of their manhood, or drove them as emigrants into other lands. …Hence the Church, having first captured all the gentle natures and condemned them to celibacy, made another sweep of her huge nets …to catch those who were the most fearless, truth-seeking, and intelligent …and therefore the most suitable parents of a high civilization, and put a strong check, if not a direct stop, to their progeny. Those she reserved… to breed the generations of the future, were the servile, the indifferent, and again, the stupid. Thus, as she… brutalized human nature by her system of celibacy applied to the gentle, she demoralised it by her system of persecution of the intelligent, the sincere, and the free.
There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.
Hereditary Genius (1869)
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.
Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)
All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.
Man is gifted with pity and other kindly feelings; he has also the power of preventing many kinds of suffering. I conceive it to fall well within his province to replace Natural Selection by other processes that are more merciful and not less effective.
This is precisely the aim of Eugenics. Its first object is to check the birth-rate of the Unfit, instead of allowing them to come into being, though doomed in large numbers to perish prematurely. The second object is the improvement of the race by furthering the productivity of the Fit by early marriages and healthful rearing of their children. Natural Selection rests upon excessive production and wholesale destruction; Eugenics on bringing no more individuals into the world than can be properly cared for, and those only of the best stock.
Ch. XXI Race Improvement
General impressions are never to be trusted. Unfortunately when they are of long standing they become fixed rules of life and assume a prescriptive right not to be questioned. Consequently those who are not accustomed to original inquiry entertain a hatred and horror of statistics. They cannot endure the idea of submitting sacred impressions to cold-blooded verification. But it is the triumph of scientific men to rise superior to such superstitions, to desire tests by which the value of beliefs may be ascertained, and to feel sufficiently masters of themselves to discard contemptuously whatever may be found untrue.
Cited in Modgil, Sohan, and Celia Modgil, eds. Arthur Jensen: Consensus and Controversy. Vol. 4. Routledge, 1987
