Vergata Antonello La
Professor, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali/Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Modena - Emilia-Romagna - Italy.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2018 Aug;25(suppl 1):125-144. doi: 10.1590/S0104-59702018000300008.
The French physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Charles Richet was the author of an impressive quantity of writings, including novels and poetry. He was an out-and-out eugenicist, convinced that "intentional, conscious, scientific, and methodical" selection could achieve "any result, provided we have enough patience." He believed that the quantitative and qualitative growth of the population was of vital importance for France. In La sélection humaine (1919) and other writings, he dreamt of conscious selection to create "intellectual élites." This process would be crowned by the production of a "higher human nature, a real surhumanité." A staunch believer in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, Richet combined Darwinism and Lamarckism.
法国生理学家、诺贝尔奖获得者查尔斯·里歇创作了大量作品，包括小说和诗歌。他是一个彻头彻尾的优生学家，坚信“有意、自觉、科学且有条不紊的”选择能够取得“任何结果，只要我们有足够的耐心”。他认为人口的数量和质量增长对法国至关重要。在《人类选择》（1919年）及其他作品中，他梦想通过自觉选择创造“知识精英”。这一过程将以产生“更高的人性，一种真正的超人”而圆满结束。里歇坚信后天获得的特征可以遗传，他将达尔文主义和拉马克主义结合了起来。
