Crossword-Solution: EUGENICS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Eugenics | n. | The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “EUGENICS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Breeding to improve good qualities | 1 answer |
| Hereditary-control movement | 1 answer |
| Process of improving offspring | 1 answer |
| Science for race improvement. | 1 answer |
| Science of race improvement. | 1 answer |
| Study of methods to improve human race. | 1 answer |
| study of methods of improving the human race | 1 answer |
| the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding | 1 answer |
| Genetics | 5 answers |
| Heredity | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EUGENICS (5)
Eugenics was founded ten years ago by Sir Francis Galton, who defined it thus: "The study of agencies under control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally." The University of London has adopted this definition, where a chair of Eugenics has been founded.
Since, as you say yourself, he brings all his problems and characters to the test of love, we may hope that it will endure at least till the infinite emotions of love are replaced by the exact simplicity of perfected Eugenics.
Bourne begins his _Ascending Effort_ with a remark by Sir Francis Galton upon Eugenics that "if the principles he was advocating were to become effective they must be introduced into the national conscience, like a new religion." "Introduced" suggests compulsory vaccination.
The only vexation he suffered was the death of Nalasu and the disappearance of Jerry--his two experiments in primitive eugenics.
Some such effort as this has been made by the Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics in Great Britain.
Quotes with EUGENICS (3)
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen — that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugeni…
Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the ma…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1944–1986).