Euthenics, the science of controllable environment / A plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency

The national annual unnecessary loss of capitalized net earnings is about $1,000,000,000.
Report on National Vitality
By ELLEN H. RICHARDS Author of Cost of Living Series, Art of Right Living, etc.
SECOND EDITION
WHITCOMB & BARROWS BOSTON, 1912
Copyright 1910 By Ellen H. Richards Thomas Todd Co., Printers 14 Beacon St., Boston
Never has society been so clear as to its several special ends, never has so little effort been due to chance or compulsion.
Ralph Barton Perry, The Moral Economy.
Not through chance, but through increase of scientific knowledge; not through compulsion, but through democratic idealism consciously working through common interests, will be brought about the creation of right conditions, the control of environment.

Eugenics deals with race improvement through heredity.
Euthenics deals with race improvement through environment.