Francis Galton published Hereditary Genius, outlining his plans for a better tomorrow. Galton argued that the British government should issue certificates of fitness to worthy young men and women and offer money for every child produced. And it wouldn’t be expensive. Galton believed that if British citizens were willing to spend “only one-twentieth of the cost spent for the improvement of the human race that is spent on the improvement of the breed of horses and cattle, what a galaxy of geniuses might we not create!” He called his plan eugenics, from the Greek for “well born.” But there was a
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