In this lecture, Huxley develops an ”ideal of the open society of open individuals.“ To reach this ideal, he points out, contrary to what ”many of the older eugenicists“ believed, ”[i]t’s not enough just to sterilize the unfit or try to breed deferentially from the more fit. It is necessary to have the best possible environment so that we may be able to see what are the full genetic possibilities of individual men and women, boys and girls.“

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