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                               EUTHENICS

                      THE SCIENCE OF CONTROLLABLE
                              ENVIRONMENT

                           A PLEA FOR BETTER
                   LIVING CONDITIONS AS A FIRST STEP
                          TOWARD HIGHER HUMAN
                              EFFICIENCY

          The national annual unnecessary loss of capitalized
                 net earnings is about $1,000,000,000.

                     _Report on National Vitality_


                        _By_ ELLEN H. RICHARDS
      Author of Cost of Living Series, Art of Right Living, etc.


                            SECOND EDITION


                          WHITCOMB & BARROWS
                             BOSTON, 1912


                            COPYRIGHT 1910
                         BY ELLEN H. RICHARDS

                       THOMAS TODD CO., PRINTERS
                         14 BEACON ST., BOSTON




FOREWORD

     Never has society been so clear as to its several special
     ends, never has so little effort been due to chance or
     compulsion.

     _Ralph Barton Perry, The Moral Economy._


Not through chance, but through increase of scientific knowledge; not
through compulsion, but through democratic idealism consciously
working through common interests, will be brought about the creation
of right conditions, the control of environment.

The betterment of living conditions, through conscious endeavor, for
the purpose of securing efficient human beings, is what the author
means by EUTHENICS.[1]

    [1] Eutheneo, [Greek: Eutheneo] (_eu_, well; _the_, root of _tithemi_,
    to cause). To be in a flourishing state, to abound in, to
    prosper.--_Demosthenes._ To be strong or vigorous.--_Herodotus._
    To be vigorous in body.--_