A practicable eugenic suggestion

William McDougall (June 22, 1871 – November 28, 1938) was a British-born, American psychologist who pioneered work in human instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall's interest in eugenics started with his work with Galton and Spearman. His view on eugenics, however, departed from Darwinian orthodoxy in maintaining the possibility of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, as suggested by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. McDougall believed that inheritance played an important role in human behavior.While he believed that the different races possessed different characteristics which were inherited, McDougall's views were not so much those of racism, but rather his attempt to find the way to maximize human abilities. Thus, his concept of selective breeding was not specifically along racial lines.