[64]. Science, xxxi., 1910, p. 179.
Lately an attempt has been made, under the auspices of the Royal Anthropological Institute, to provide travellers with instructions for psychological investigations in the field.
Eugenics.
During the last few years the subject of race improvement, or Eugenics, has been greatly to the fore, and it has been in this country mainly connected with the name of Sir Francis Galton, who as long ago as 1865 published his views on the subject. Eugenics is officially defined in the Minutes of the University of London as “the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.” A eugenics laboratory has recently been established in University College, London, in connection with Professor Karl Pearson’s biometric laboratory.
Chapter VI.
THE CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MAN
Race Description and Classification.
After the age of race discrimination comes the age of race description and classification; and, as we should expect, this second stage is not reached until the close of the Dark Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance, when thought had been emancipated from the bondage of scholastic authority and stimulated by the new impulse which infected all forms of intellectual activity.
Bernier.