In this book, the author begins by defining beauty in her terms. She is taking a scientific approach, but also a philosophical one. She argues that a person must fulfill not only outward signs of beauty but also certain inner qualities in order to be called beautiful. She also argues that each is not necessarily the converse of the other.

Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.

We are at a crucial point in time: a moment of transition as important as the emergence of Homo sapiens, or the beginning of civilisation after the Neolithic Revolution. Paradoxically, the triumph of the West - also called 'globalisation' - means the death of Europe and European man. Our destiny hangs between two options: either to complete the triumph of the egalitarian conception of the world, which will bring about the end of history, or to promote a historical regeneration. Nietzsche prophesied that the Earth will eventually belong to either the last man or to the superman. There are no other alternatives.

Vol. 49, no. 4, pt. 2 (July 1952) is the association's Publication manual.

Excerpt from Personal Beauty and Racial Betterment From several persons who have read the manuscript of this essay, and from a larger number who have read the first part, I have received criticisms which are reducible to two main points: First, that I make the procreation of children the predominant ideal in marriage, minimizing companionship and other "spiritual" factors. Second, that although I call attention to various unsatisfactory conditions of sex relations, I have no practical reform program to propose. Both of these points I admit without apology, and to both of them I wish to direct the readers' attention. I agree thoroughly with the position of the Church (as I understand that position), in declaring that the highest "spiritual" values of marriage result when it is most perfectly adaptated to its primary end. As a psychologist, I have the psychologist's prejudice, that ideals, intellectual analysis, and education are the fundamental forces of progress, and that laws, conventions, and customs serve to consolidate and make secure the gains achieved through these forces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.