1907
Inspired
by Galton's ideas, the Eugenics Education Society
of UK was founded with the explicit aim of spreading the doctrine of genetic
improvement throughout the land. Galton became its honorary president
in 1908. Galton's protėgė, Karl Pearson,
a statistician of real originality, developed the founder's ideas of human
measurement and formed the Biometric Laboratory
at University College, London in the 1890s. If Galton was an
enthusiast, Pearson was a fanatic - a cold, calculating measurer of man
who claimed to be a socialist, but loathed the working class. His journal
Biometrika became influential,
particularly in the United States. In 1911 he became the first Galton
Professor of Eugenics at London University, a post created in accordance
with Galton's will. Galton's movement never achieved legislative power
in Britain. The story was different in the US.
Panic
of 1907 results in a public outcry that the nation's monetary
system be stabilized.
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