12.09.11
Francis Galton’s Novel: A Vision of Horrors to Come
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/12/francis_galtons053871.html
Darwin’s cousin will never live down the dark side of his legacy. Yes, Francis Galton did some good things: weather maps, fingerprinting systems, social science work. But his baby, eugenics, was a monster that has risen again in his own words: a chilling novel that didn’t get destroyed.
His own family tried to destroy it. Francis Galton wrote a novel named Kantsaywhere that presented his vision of an ideal society, where science bred the best human stock and eliminated the unfit. Wasn’t that something his famous cousin would appreciate? Michael Marshall doesn’t think so. In New Scientist, he wrote about efforts by University College London to restore the remaining pieces and publish them on the Internet
Galton novel said,
December 12, 2011 at 2:01 pm
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