"The Next Revolution"
Journal article
By: Ellsworth Huntington
Date: October 1928
Source: Huntington, Ellsworth. "The Next Revolution." Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment, October 1928, 6–14.
About the Author: Ellsworth Huntington (1876–1947), a geographer by academic training, was one of the world's leading figures in the controversial eugenics movement.
Introduction
Eugenics, the long-forgotten pseudo-science of selective human breeding, was once a major intellectual discipline. It was based on the superficially attractive notion that human reproduction should be carefully channeled, not merely left to random chance, in much the same manner that man has purposefully domesticated plants and animals over the ages.
In practice, eugenics contained several facets. It sought to maintain the vigor of the white race through the promotion of strong families and...
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