The Faces of Eugenics: Local Mirrors and Global Reflections

“We cannot even guess, How our word will echo…”Fedor Tiutchev, 27 February 1869 The two men whose names appear in the title of this book — British polymath Francis Galton and Russian gynecologist Vasilii Florinskii — were contemporaries. Although they never met and likely never even heard of one another, in the history of science their names appear to be closely linked. In 1865, each published in an influential monthly a scholarly piece that years later their followers in Britain and in Russi..