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:Please see my 23 November 2014 comment above. [[User:Wsiegmund|Walter Siegmund]] [[User_talk:Wsiegmund|(talk)]] 17:18, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
== first use of "dysgenic" ==
The following excerpt from [[Francis Galton]] seems to imply an earlier use of the word "dysgenic" then claimed in the article ("It was first used c. 1915 by [[David Starr Jordan]], describing the supposed dysgenic effects of [[World War I]]."):
:Galton invented the term ''[[eugenics]]'' in 1883 and set down many of his observations and conclusions in a book, ''[[Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development]]''.<ref>[http://galton.org/books/human-faculty/ Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He believed that a scheme of 'marks' for family merit should be defined, and early marriage between families of high rank be encouraged by provision of monetary incentives. He pointed out some of the tendencies in British society, such as the late marriages of eminent people, and the paucity of their children, which he thought were ''[[dysgenics|dysgenic]]''. He advocated encouraging eugenic marriages by supplying able couples with incentives to have children. On 29 October 1901, Galton chose to address eugenic issues when he delivered the second Huxley lecture at the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Namely that Galton invented the term and first used it. --[[User:MarSch|MarSch]] ([[User talk:MarSch|talk]]) 08:10, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
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