![]() and Gliddon, G.R., Indigenous Races of the Earth, J.B. ![]() In 1869 he wrote to Darwin, ‘he appearance of your Origin of Species formed a real crisis in my life your book drove away the constraint of my old superstition as if it had been a nightmare and was the first to give me freedom of thought.’ 4 From Nott, J.C. The publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 was undoubtedly a turning point in Galton’s life. 3 His inventions included the ‘silent’ dog whistle, a teletype printer and various instruments and techniques for measuring human intelligence and body parts and he invented the weather map and discovered the existence of anticyclones. ![]() In that year, Galton married Louisa Butler, whose father had been Headmaster at Harrow School.Īs an amateur scientist of boundless curiosity and energy, he went on to write some 14 books and over 200 papers. This gave the wealthy young Galton free time not only for ‘amusement’, but also to dabble in a number of fields, including exploration of large areas of South West Africa, his reports of which gained him membership of the Royal Geographic Society in 1853, and three years later of the Royal Society. 2 When his father died that same year, he inherited such a fortune that he never again needed to work for a living. 1 In 1840, he began studies at Cambridge University in medicine and then in mathematics, but, due to a nervous breakdown, succeeded in gaining only a modest B.A. A grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his mother’s side and so a cousin of Charles Darwin (pictured above left), he shared the Darwinian agnosticism and antagonism to Christianity for most of his adult life.Īs a child, he had learned the alphabet by 18 months, was reading by age 2½, memorizing poetry by five, and discussing the Iliad at six. So who was Galton, what is eugenics, and how has it harmed humanity? Francis Galton Photos Darwin by TFE Graphics, Hitler and Galton by įrancis Galton (featured on right in photo montage, right) was born into a Quaker family in Birmingham, England, in 1822. Today, ethnic cleansing, the use of abortion to eliminate ‘defective’ unborn babies, infanticide, euthanasia, and the harvesting of unborn babies for research purposes all have a common foundation in the survival-of-the-fittest theory of eugenics. He founded the evolutionary pseudo-science of eugenics. Few ideas have done more harm to the human race in the last 120 years than those of Sir Francis Galton.
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