"Eugenics, which was a programme for applying the selective breeding techniques familiar in agriculture and livestock-raising to people, long preceded genetics. The name dates from 1883. It was essentially a political movement, overwhelmingly confined to members of the bourgeoisie or middle classes, urging upon governments a programme of positive or negative actions to improve the genetic condition of the human race. Extreme eugenists believed that the condition of man and society could be ameliorated only by the genetic improvement of the human race – by concentrating on encouraging valuable human strains (usually identified with the bourgeoisie or with suitably tinted races such as the ‘Nordic’), and eliminating undesirable strains (usually identified with the poor, the colonized or unpopular strangers)." (from "Age Of Empire: 1875-1914" by Eric Hobsbawm)
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