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humanity was in a position to take control of its own evolution
and even to produce a master race. Galton openly stated his

belief in the superiority of the "master class" and the "master
race." He also claimed that blacks possessed a low level of intel-
ligence, saying:
… the number among the negroes of those whom we should call
half-witted men, is very large. Every book alluding to negro ser-
vants in America is full of instances. I was myself much
impressed by this fact during my travels in Africa. The mistakes
the negroes made in their own matters, were so childish, stupid,
and simpleton-like, as frequently to make me ashamed of my
own species. 109
Galton went so far as to suggest that various breeds of dogs
were higher in intellect than some races of human. 110 But in his
evaluation of blacks and slaves, he ignored one very evident
truth: that the great majority of books about slaves were written
by slave owners. In addition, since slaves were immersed in a
society entirely foreign to them, in a culture of which they knew
nothing, naturally much of their behavior and actions should

seem ignorant. Clearly, any European taken to live in an African
village would exhibit the same sort of incompetence in trying to
adapt to a foreign culture and way of life.
More importantly, Galton's claims about blacks or his own
citizens going to live in other countries possess no scientific
validity, but were based solely on the illusory assumptions of
various so-called scientists, brainwashed by a materialist world
view, under the primitive thinking of the time.
Prejudiced and inconsistent, Galton's theses were by no
means restricted to these. For example, he also proposed that for
there to be social progress, those with low intelligence and intel-
lectual levels had to be prevented from multiplying, and the
smarter ones encouraged to do so. Otherwise, he warned, there

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