Term
eugenics
A doctrine popular in the early twentieth century that aimed to “improve” people through control of marriage and birth rates. Sidis considered it superstition. Later, eugenic ideas were used to justify forced sterilizations.
Nervous Ills: Their Causes and Cure, Boris Sidis
Explained in
- Nervous Ills: Their Causes and Cure, Boris Sidis
- Love and Marriage, Ellen Key
A movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that called for “improving” humanity by controlling who has children and with whom. Today it is rejected.
- Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Havelock Ellis
A doctrine of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on «improving» human heredity through selection. The term was coined by Francis Galton in 1883.