Excerpt from The Academic Aspect of the Science of National Eugenics: A Lecture Delivered to Undergraduates In the middle class our daughters are taller than their mothers - the average increase is more than an inch. Our sons have not that full advantage on us. We be longed also to a generation that, as boys and young men, rowed and shot and played cricket - nay we, perhaps, played football more frequently and looked on at it less than the males of the younger generation do. Our sons are hardly on the average taller than we are. Shall we say that they are more like us than their sisters are to their mothers That is to forget the fundamental fact that likeness of individuals is only measurable relative to the unlikeness to others. And, as we might anticipate, the resemblance of mother to daughter is found to be no less than that of father to son, when we come to investigate the problem numerically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.