Excerpt from The Claims of the Coming Generation: A Consideration by Various Writers For some years after Sir Francis Galton founded Eugenics, the new science seemed to be flourishing, and the intelligent public showed an increasing interest in it. Since the beginning of the war it has languished and seems to be dying, not of ridicule but of indifference. The scientific study of heredity of course goes on, and new discoveries are made every year; but the public absolutely refuses to treat it as a matter of practical importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.