Books: Picturesque Eugenics

Picturesque Eugenics

THE NEXT AGE OF MAN—Albert Edward Wiggam — Bobbs-Merrill ($3). "Plainly, it is a crisis in the affairs of human beings." It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones which control female reproductive organs will be harnessed, put into pills, sold at corner drug stores. Thus will parents be able to determine the nature and the number of their offspring. A finer race will be bred. Evolution will become "peaceful, happy, benign."

Author Wiggam, a picturesque eugenist, has a propensity for...

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