The study of social hygiene means the study of those things which concern the welfare of human beings living in societies.

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The modern industrial era, replacing domestic industry by collective work carried out by "hands" in factories, began in the eighteenth century.

The most brilliant and successful exponent of the new revolutionary ideas—making Corinne and her prototype seem dim and ineffectual—was undoubtedly George Sand.

The modern conception of the political equality of women with men, we have seen, arose in France in the second half of the eighteenth century.

For the ordinary classic mind, Greek or Roman, marriage was intended for the end of building up the family, and the family was consecrated to the State.

Ireland, again, has a very low crude birth-rate, but the population of child-bearing age has a high birth-rate, considerably higher than that of England.

The cause of Eugenics has sometimes been prejudiced in the public mind by a comparison with the artificial breeding of domestic animals.

The mind of the child is at once logical and extravagant, matter-of-fact and poetic or rather mytho-p[oe]ic.

This policy has been so firmly established that the theory of it has never been clearly argued out.

The ruling opinion is the opinion of all, the ruling custom is the duty for all.

To-day the interests of small states are so closely identified with peace that it is seldom difficult to exert pressure on them to maintain it.

The collapse of Volapük discouraged thoughtful persons from expecting any solution of the problem in an artificial language.

Every scheme of social reform, every powerful manifestation of individual energy, raise anew a problem that is never out of date.