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H.G. Wells's eugenic thinking of the 1930s and 1940s *. (Essays).

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20030101
Author:Partington, John S.

IN A PREVIOUS UTOPIAN STUDIES ARTICLE ("Death of the Static"), I presented Wells's eugenic thinking between 1892 and 1908. That article demonstrated the influence of T.H. Huxley's principle of "ethical evolution" on Wells's developing social policy. Rather than support the "survival of the fittest", Huxley advocated the "the fitting of as many as possible to survive" ("Evolution and Ethics" 82). As I demonstrated, Wells followed Huxley's lead during the late-Victorian and Edwardian period, devising social policy based on the "minimum standard" (Mankind in the Making 108), a ...

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