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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

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Francis Galton

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics. . . and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.

Bettering, Liberty, Maintaining, Quality, Societal, Stock
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We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

Creation, Parent, Separate, Variously, Views, Way

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

Good, Individual, Individuals, Life Is, Republic, Unconscious

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

Adhesion, Animal, Cat, Comforts, House

The conditions that direct the order of. . . the living world. . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

Birthright, Generations, Living, Order, Persistence

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

Becomes, Kindness, Lies, Lying, Nature, Quickly
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