Even humane progressives in 1903 treated human eugenic breeding as the paramount social question

Evidence

In her entry of 16 January, 1903, gentle and humane Beatrice Webb noted in her diary that human breeding “is the most important of all questions, this breeding of the right sort of man…” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 407

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to contemporary eugenics histories and to the moral-panics framing over ‘immodesty’ literature in how respectable elites rationalized social control.
• QUESTION: How wide was eugenic sentiment among English Fabian socialists in 1903, and did any of them publicly dissent?