{"product_id":"behind-and-before-two-essays-on-the-relation-of-history-politics-and-eugenist-warnings-paperback-9781107625587","title":"Behind and Before; Two Essays on the Relation of History Politics and Eugenist Warnings (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107625587","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBehind and Before\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwo Essays on the Relation of History Politics and Eugenist Warnings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginally published in 1924, this book presents two essays containing William Emerton Heitland's thoughts on eugenics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eW. E. Heitland (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107625587, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 October 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.21 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWilliam Emerton Heitland (1847–1935) was a well-known classical scholar and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Originally published in 1924, this book presents two essays containing Heitland's thoughts on eugenics and the application of 'biological criticism' to sociological and political questions. Whilst much of the content is dubious in nature, the text provides an important document of its time. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in historical perspectives on eugenics and socio-political thought.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Students note defects in policy\u003cbr\u003e 2. Relation of policy to study. Theories. History - what use?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Study in general - aims - science and art\u003cbr\u003e 4. Application to history and politics. No exact science, but art in function\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political art functioning in time\u003cbr\u003e 6. Personalities and motive. Accidents\u003cbr\u003e 7. Moral judgment and circumstance\u003cbr\u003e 8. Analogies and parallels\u003cbr\u003e 9. Anticipation and protraction\u003cbr\u003e 10. Modern history more useful than ancient or medieval\u003cbr\u003e 11. Enlarged outlook since 15th century. Political problem of Europe\u003cbr\u003e 12. Representation - nationality\u003cbr\u003e 13. Danger of modern analogies etc. Precedent. Irish policy\u003cbr\u003e 14. Lack of checks in British constitution\u003cbr\u003e 15. Need of education. Grades of education, difficulties of each\u003cbr\u003e 16. The possible and desirable in historical study\u003cbr\u003e 17. Orientation, its function\u003cbr\u003e 18. Desultory reading, conditions of its usefulness\u003cbr\u003e 19. Academic teaching. Its methods, aims and dangers\u003cbr\u003e 20. Interest in subject matter discussed\u003cbr\u003e 21. Foreign policy. Questions raised by nationality\u003cbr\u003e 22. The value of knowledge in dealing with such issues\u003cbr\u003e 23. Reaction on home conditions nowadays\u003cbr\u003e 24. Dangers of error in comparing situations\u003cbr\u003e 25. Student's task difficult. Questions of moral judgment\u003cbr\u003e 26. Case of 17th century movements and issues\u003cbr\u003e 27. Lessons derivable therefrom\u003cbr\u003e 28. Analysis of questions raised in historical study\u003cbr\u003e 29. Nature and conditions of experiment in politics\u003cbr\u003e 30. Change of conditions owing to 'popular' government\u003cbr\u003e 31. Public opinion, how to be ascertained?\u003cbr\u003e 32. Swift communications, their effect. The press\u003cbr\u003e 33. 'Mandates' and their inevitable difficulties\u003cbr\u003e 34. Modern devices - referendum. Proportional representation\u003cbr\u003e 35. Value of vox populi. Complications of mandate doctrine\u003cbr\u003e 36. Has government by majority ever been an effective fact?\u003cbr\u003e 37. Difficulty of gauging significance of elections\u003cbr\u003e 38. History, how far indirectly of use to statesmen in facing problems arising therefrom\u003cbr\u003e 39. Supreme importance of leadership\u003cbr\u003e 40. Education of leaders, how best achieved\u003cbr\u003e 41. Mankind and other animals as needing leaders\u003cbr\u003e 42. Human nature at present beyond exact analysis\u003cbr\u003e 43. Human defects recognized. Special difficulty in politics\u003cbr\u003e 44. Party system. Apprenticeships. Learning by experience. 45. Practical politics and natural sciences\u003cbr\u003e 46. Biological view - zoological - heredity\u003cbr\u003e 47. Classes and functions. Middle class failing\u003cbr\u003e 48. Heterogeneity. Danger of promoting rise into upper classes\u003cbr\u003e 49. Fallacy of inequality. Are modern states experimenting rashly?\u003cbr\u003e 50. Class-distinction criticized\u003cbr\u003e 51. Demagogy - queries - slum-system the real present evil\u003cbr\u003e 52. Laissez-faire. Socialist movements. Anti-slum movements\u003cbr\u003e 53. Garden schemes good - small as yet. Despite difficulties, better than legislative palliatives\u003cbr\u003e 54. True aim to improve character\u003cbr\u003e 55. Training of citizens. The birth-rate question. Biological attitude as to restriction. How get the power needed for dealing with the matter?\u003cbr\u003e 56. Supposed analogy of bodily and social organisms. Control of breeding - can it be applied in human societies?\u003cbr\u003e 57. Is it applicable to classes as well as to individuals?\u003cbr\u003e 58. Interchange between classes - query, unavoidable? Present attempts to deal with problem\u003cbr\u003e 59. Rising and sinking. Query as to effects on classes\u003cbr\u003e 60. Interbreeding and illegitimacy. Caution needed\u003cbr\u003e 61. Biological pessimism - democracy condemned\u003cbr\u003e 62. Doubts as to necessity of pessimistic view\u003cbr\u003e 63. The element of time. Is it too late to reform? The boom of the 19th century and present peril\u003cbr\u003e 64. Emigration as a proposed remedy, and the grave difficulties to be faced at home and in the colonies\u003cbr\u003e 65. Present conditions within the British Empire. Mutual accommodation the only way hopeful\u003cbr\u003e 66. Psychology and history\u003cbr\u003e 67. Need of emotional influences for effective operation in public affairs\u003cbr\u003e 68. Religion as supplying such influence\u003cbr\u003e 69. 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