The Fight For Our National Intelligence

Table of contents :
- Introduction by Lord Horder, K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P.
- Introduction by Major Leonard Darwin, Sc.D., Honorary President of the Eugenics Society
- Introduction by F. P. Armitage, C.B.E., M.A., Director of Education, City of Leicester
- Author's Foreword
I. THE TWILIGHT OF WESTERN CIVILISATION?
II. INQUEST ON NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE LEVELS
1. Intelligence measured in typical Rural and Urban Populations
2. Sizes of Family found at various Intelligence Levels
III. Intelligence Produced By Environment Or Breeding?
1. Psychological Researches regarding the Nature and the Measurement of Intelligence
2. Concerning some Emotional Resistances found Where Science penetrates politics
3. Mental Capacity as an Inborn Gift of the Individual
4. The Manner of Inheritance of Mental Capacity
IV. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE NATIONAL DECLINE AND ITS PROBABLE EFFECTS
1. Calculation of the Changes occurring between two Generations
2. Discussion of the Qualitative and Quantitative Effects
- (a) On Education.
- (b) On the Moral Tone and Character of Society.
- (c) On Culture and Recreation.
- (d) On Social Progress and Reform.
- (e) On Wealth and Employment.
- (f) On National Security.
- (g) On the Advance of Science.
- (h) On Individual Happiness.
V. THE PRESENT DEADLOCK IN THE WAR AGAINST DULLNESS
I. The Obstacle of Complacency arising from the Illusion of Success
2. Failure of Democracy's Press to give it Vital News
3. False Hopes, as that a Complex Civilisation will automatically create Intelligence
4. On shaping Hereditary Constitution by Environmental Reforms
5. The Peril of Vague and Sentimental Charity
6. The Unrealised Price of what we are Throwing Away
7. The Historical Novelty of Eugenic Action
VI. THE WAY OUT
1. Sharper Definition of the Field of Campaign
2. Close-up of "Civilisation Wreckers" and the "National Suicide Club"
3. Essential Measures of a Successful Campaign
- (a) Recognition of the Sub-cultural Social Defective.
- (b) Making the Able Child an Economic Asset.
- (c) Increasing the Income Tax Allowance for Children.
- (d) Extending Conditions of Steadiness and Security of Income
- (e) Regulation of Marriage and Celibacy.
- (f) Provision of Child Allowances in "Above Average" Groups.
- (g) The Universal Availability of Birth Control.
- (h) Mental Hygiene applied to Social Attitudes governing Sterility:
-- (i) The Revolutionary Introduction of Mental Factors through Birth Control
-- (ii) Educational Treatment of the Love of Children.
-- (iii) The Status of Pride of Family.
-- (iv) Eugenics and the Will to Immortality.
-- (v) The Artificial Culture of Lethal Ideas.
-- (vi) Eugenics, Religion and the Sense of Duty.
-- (vii) The True Use of Patriotism.
-- (viii) The Establishment of a Ministry of Evolution.
-- (ix) The Psychoanalysis of Social Melancholia.
4. Perspective on Measures in a First Attack
- Index