This is CBS I On The World.

I'm John Batchford with Marilyn Brooke, the author of the new book, The Orphans of Davenport,

Eugenics, The Great Depression, and The War Over Children's Intelligence.

The controversy in the early part of the 20th century has to do with our children, our

children born with the intelligence they'll have their whole lives.

Eugenics is an important that who their parents are, if their parents are socially unacceptable.

Does that mean they have low intelligence?

What does it mean for child rearing?

We go now to a school called Eugenics.

Eugenics are present at the presentation by Harold Skills and the presentation by George

Stoddard.

Eugenics begins, however, in the 19th century, a man named Francis Goulton.

Marilyn, who is Francis Goulton, and what did he intend by inventing the science or the

observation or the cult of Eugenics?

Francis Goulton is a cousin of Charles Darwin's.

And he listened to Darwin's ideas about how evolution changes his species.

And he extrapolated from Darwin's information, an idea that children inherit from

their parents as single traits, things like barbarism, sense of humor, criminality, promiscuity,

and so on.

And Goulton put these ideas out into the English intellectual atmosphere.

And they were very much believed.

He thought that it would be possible to create a society of the able if you kept people

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