[...] civilization, which is now recklessly destructive of high races, would under more enlightened leadership, employ its force to maintain and improve them. The gifted families would be full of life and hope, and living under more intelligent and favorable sanitary conditions, would multiply rapidly while the non gifted would begin to decay out of the land, whenever they were brought face to face in competition with them, just in the same way as inferior races always disappear before superior ones. [...] I do not see why any insolence of caste should prevent the gifted class, when they had the power, from treating their compatriots with all kindness, so long as they maintained celibacy. But if these continued to procreate children, inferior in moral, intellectual and physical qualities, it is easy to believe the time may come when such persons would be considered as enemies to the State, and to have forfeited all claims to kindness.
Galton, Francis, Sir, "Hereditary Improvement," Fraser's Magazine, New Series vol 7, 1873, pp. 116-130 (p. 29).
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