Homo-culture: Restored Classics to Go Edition

This provocative study argues that humanity can be improved not only by better habits, but by wiser parentage, healthier marriages, and more intelligent choices before birth. Beginning with evolution, natural selection, and sexual selection, it shows how mate choice, competition, and inherited vigor may gradually raise the physical and mental quality of the race. The author then turns to heredity, prenatal influence, and childhood development, insisting that character, health, and intelligence are shaped by both biology and environment. Drawing on Plato, Sparta, Lycurgus, and Plutarch, the book contrasts ancient schemes of state-controlled breeding, infanticide, and discipline with modern moral standards, while recovering their interest in education, nursing, companions, and virtue. It also examines animal courtship to show that attraction and beauty are active forces in evolution. Throughout, it urges teachers and parents to recognize each child's individuality rather than fear heredity as destiny. The closing section offers a vivid, practical account of raising a first child through tested methods of disciplined care, early habits, and close parental companionship. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.