It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar … - Thomas Malthus

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The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

Thomas Malthus

It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible. . . As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.

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