Social Problems: Their Treatment, Past, Present, and Future - A Lecture Delivered at the Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, March 19, 1912> #268182

Well, as a 'consistent Socialist' I mean in and out of season to preach to the inconsistent Socialist that nature is more important than nurture, and that no social changes can be stable which neglect this great truth. I do not see why we should lose all the emotional force, all the enthusiasm behind the idea that all politics must be socialistic, that all politics tend towards social welfare, because in the past and at the present so many political movements find no justifica tion whatever in our growing knowledge of the laws of human development.