THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE I The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

It is a relation which almost amounts to identity.

Yet it somehow seems so vague, so abstract, as scarcely to concern us at all.

It is only lately indeed that there has been formulated even so much as a science to discuss this relationship, and the duties which, when properly understood, it throws upon the individual.

Even yet the word "Eugenics," the name of this science, and this art, sometimes arouses a smile.