Francis Galton’s Eugenics: Rethinking the Development of a Scientific Doctrine

What is it about?

Eugenics has rightly acquired a reactionary reputation. This article uses the sociological model developed by Max Weber called 'charisma and its transformations' to argue that eugenics was intended to be a forward-looking and progressive ideology. That this did not happen can largely be laid at the door of the Eugenics Education Society in Britain. It had a social Darwinist conception of the doctrine, which was at odds with Francis Galton's original ideas. Nevertheless, its vision prevailed.

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