He later changed the designation to "Eugenics," which is now held as the term best applying in this connection.

In 1891 Dr.Lester Ward himself said, "Artificial selection has given to man the most that he enjoys in the organic products of earth.

May not men and women be selected as well as sheep and horses?
From the great stirp of humanity with all its multiplied ancestral plasms--some very poor, some mediocre, some merely indifferent, a goodly number ranging from middling to fair, only a comparatively few very good, with an occasional crystal of the first water--why may we not learn to select on some broad and comprehensive plan with a view to a general building up and rounding out of the race of human beings ?" So keen an observer and philosophic thinker as Doctor Ward, however, could not long accept the first allurement of this idea.

He soon began to show with his convincing power that "the control of heredity is possible only to a master creature.

Man is the master creature of the animal world.