Mental defectives aside, it is nice to know a little more about folks who
make grand pronouncements like that.

Sir Francis Galton, some kind of a cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English
Victorian egghead, polymath, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer,
inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and
statistician.

He coined the term "Eugenics," so he could be called the Father of Eugenics,
too.

He enjoyed nothing more than measuring people's skulls, and other things,
when he wasn't out exploring, inventing, inventing statistical mathematics,
and other stuff. He also credited with inventing fingerprinting, but that
was when he wasn't doing his other stuff.

IOW, he was a fairly typical self-centered, wealthy, British pacifist Quaker
kook of the late 19th Century who's family made tons of money out of banking
and gun manufacturing.

He would have gotten along well with the Nazis, but checked out before WW
One. They liked what he had to say in his books, anyway.

Eugenics was presented, after Galton croaked, as a mathematical science that
could be used to predict the traits and behaviors of humans, and control
human breeding.

The way Eugenicists viewed things, only people who were eugenics buffs could
breed. The Nazis expanded on that basic idea until folks that didn't make
their cut were to be euthanized in concentration camps.

Recognizing the dangers such thoughts could bring on here in the USA,
Democratic politicians had it stamped out back in the Thirties vefore it
could threaten their party faithful.

Galton was the type of guy who would probably be known as Mohammed Galton,
today.