Unnatural selection Anthony Daniels on the unwitting begetter of Nazi eugenics, Sir Francis Galton

The Sunday Telegraph London | January 27, 2002| | Copyright

A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics

by Nicholas Wright Gillham

Oxford, pounds 22.50, 416 pp

pounds 19.50 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

SOME PEOPLE cannot listen to Wagner without constantly recalling that he was Hitler's favourite composer: and in like fashion, the name of the Victorian scientific polymath Sir Francis Galton is frequently associated (by those who have heard of him at all) with the history of Nazi atrocity.

It was he, after all, who not only coined the term eugenics, but gave substance to the concept: he was the first to suggest in ...

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