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relegated to the dusty shelves of history. Until Darwin's The Origin of Species
was published. Darwin devoted the opening chapters of his book to the subject
of raising animals, drew attention to those breeders who raised more
productive breeds of horses and cattle, and then proposed, later on in the book,
that these methods could be applied to human beings. Ultimately, it was
Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, who widened the road of eugenics opened by
his uncle, and who brought the subject onto the world stage by formulating it
into a comprehensive program.
As we might imagine, Galton was a fierce supporter and follower of
Darwin. In his autobiography Memories of My Life, he writes:

The publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made
a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of
human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of
dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion
against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated
statements were contradicted by modern science. 24
The concepts that Galton denigrated as "dogmatic barriers" and
"ancient authorities" were religious systems and beliefs. In other words,
Darwin was the reason for Galton's "great turning point," giving up his beliefs,
and turning to the atheism and the racism, remnants of paganism.
Other than Darwin, Galton was also influenced by another evolutionist
ideologue, the French physicist Paul Broca, who proposed that human
intelligence was directly related to brain size and, hence, to the size of the head.
In order to allegedly "prove" this, he tore up Paris graveyards and measured
hundreds of skulls. Galton united Broca's superstition about brain size—which
would subsequently be proved to be utterly wrong—and Charles Darwin's
"animal breeding" philosophy. The result was the theory of "eugenics," being
that certain races of humanity are superior to others, and that those superior
must be kept uncontaminated by those inferior.
Galton first published his ideas in 1869, in his book Hereditary Genius. It
discusses a number of "geniuses" in British history and claims that they bore
pure racial characteristics. (Among these "geniuses," he did not neglect to
include his uncle, Charles Darwin). In accordance to his claim, Galton then
suggested that the English nation possessed an inherently superior blood to
other races, and that steps needed to be taken to protect that blood from
contamination. These theories he considered to be applicable not just to the
British, but to all races. The Canadian author Ian Taylor has this to say in his