Sir Francis Galton's The Comparative Worth Of Races

Sir Francis Galton was the English psychologist, known for coining the phenomena, eugenics. In Galton’s The Comparative Worth of Races, he explained that the most practical thing for the human race to do, was to produce a highly gifted race of men. Galton believed that to produce these highly gifted men, was by way of judicious marriages, during several consecutive generations. He thought that there were certain “ordinary characters” of people, that were working towards the depravity and deterioration of humankind. While others, like himself, were working towards the betterment of the human race. Galton also mentions that there are several grades of people that should be replicated, to create the perfect race. Galton concluded, that if humans