Race Culture; or, race suicide? (a plea for the unborn)

New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd, 1906. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated First Edition Thus, being in effect a second and enlarged edition of Proposed Sterilization of Certain Mental and Physical Degenerates, which he published in 1903. Like other eugenicists of his era, motivated as they were more by racialized notions and unscientific understandings of mental health and reproduction, he "called attention to the large and increasing number of the insane in the United Kingdom; to our disgraceful system of child-marriages; to the growing suicide rate; to our disgusting system of inducing certain mentally and physically disease persons to marry; and to a slight operation which I was the first to propose as a means of checking the increase in the number of the insane, and in preventing innocent off-spring from being cursed by some parental blemish" (p. vii). A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Red cloth bindings, still sharp gilt lettering to spine, slight forward cock to spine, moderate toning to endpapers, text-block, xiv [1], 2-182 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.