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… modern eugenics thought arose only in the nineteenth century.
The emergence of interest in eugenics during that century had

multiple roots. The most important was the theory of evolution,
for Francis Galton's ideas on eugenics – and it was he who creat-
ed the term "eugenics" – were a direct logical outgrowth of the sci-
entific doctrine elaborated by his cousin, Charles Darwin. 103

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The foundations of the perversion of eugenics were actual-
ly laid by Malthus and Darwin. Malthus's Essay, Darwin's
source of inspiration, contained the basic ideas that would come
to constitute eugenics. For example, Malthus claimed that
human beings could multiply by means of the same methods as
those used for breeding animal stock:
It does not, however, by any means, seem impossible that, by an
attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement similar to that
among animals might take place among men. Whether intellect
could be communicated may be a matter of doubt; but size,
strength, beauty, complexion, and, perhaps, even longevity, are in
a degree transmissible. 104
From this and a great many other statements, Malthus
clearly regarded human beings as a kind of animal. His twisted
perspective influenced Darwin, who made a number of predic-
tions containing the disaster that was to become eugenics. In The
Descent of Man, he expressed concern that thanks to various
social practices, the weak were not being eliminated and that
this could lead to a biologically backward trend. According to
Darwin, the flawed ones among "savage peoples" and animals
were swiftly eliminated, but it was a grave error for such mem-
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