Word: galton
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...second half of its program. It flatters itself that it has had considerable success in this phase of improving the British breed, e.g., passage of a 1913 law prohibiting marriage for mental defectives, increased use of contraceptives by slum-dwelling Britons. Last week in London, Cambridge Physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 67, the society's leader and one of its impressive testimonials (as the fit, surviving grandson of Charles Darwin, cousin of pioneer Eugenicist Sir Francis Galton), decided that the time had come to increase the quantity of England's quality...
...winter. In a casually lofty historical essay, The World and the West, Historian Arnold Toynbee suggested that faithless Western man stands a fair chance of getting his comeuppance from Russia and the East, but who knows?-maybe not. There was no such hemming and hawing from Physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The grandson of the author of The Origin of Species played the old Malthusian game in The Next Million Years, saw ahead nothing but vast increases of population and ultimate world starvation. In a worrying world, Darwin's horizon scanning seemed like a worrier's luxury...
...takes a hardy man to predict the future of the human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) Darwin, and former Master of Christ College, Cambridge. His just-published book, The Next Million Years (Doubleday; $2.75), is sugar-coated with flowing, donnish English, but it contains a bitter pill for people with faith in human progress. The ultimate future of the race, says Writer Darwin, will be much like its deplorable past...