<Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> The custom of making abstract dogmatic assertions is not, certainly, derived from the teaching of Jesus, but has been a widespread weakness among religious teachers in subsequent centuries . I do not think that the word for the Christian virtue of faith should be prostituted to mean the credulous acceptance of all such piously intended assertions . Much self - deception in the young believer is needed to convince himself that he knows that of which in reality he knows himself to be ignorant . That surely is hypocrisy, against which we have been most conspicuously warned . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> The custom of making abstract dogmatic assertions is not, certainly, derived from the teaching of Jesus, but has been a widespread weakness among religious teachers in subsequent centuries . I do not think that the word for the Christian virtue of faith should be prostituted to mean the credulous acceptance of all such piously intended assertions . Much self - deception in the young believer is needed to convince himself that he knows that of which in reality he knows himself to be ignorant . That surely is hypocrisy, against which we have been most conspicuously warned . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> In 1910 Fisher joined the Eugenics Society (UK) at University of Cambridge, whose members included John Maynard Keynes, R.C. Punnett, and Horace Darwin . He saw eugenics as addressing pressing social and scientific issues that encompassed and drove his interest in both genetics and statistics . During World War I Fisher started writing book reviews for the Eugenic Review and volunteered to undertake all such reviews for the journal, being hired for a part - time position . The last third of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection focussed on eugenics, attributing the fall of civilizations to the fertility of their upper classes being diminished, and used British 1911 census data to show an inverse relationship between fertility and social class, partly due, he claimed, to the lower financial costs and hence increasing social status of families with fewer children . He proposed the abolition of extra allowances to large families, with the allowances proportional to the earnings of the father . He served in several official committees to promote Eugenics . In 1934, he resigned from the Eugenics Society over a dispute about increasing the power of scientists within the movement . </P> <P> In 1950, Fisher opposed UNESCO's The Race Question, believing that evidence and everyday experience showed that human groups differ profoundly "in their innate capacity for intellectual and emotional development" and concluded that the "practical international problem is that of learning to share the resources of this planet amicably with persons of materially different nature", and that "this problem is being obscured by entirely well - intentioned efforts to minimize the real differences that exist". The revised statement titled "The Race Concept: Results of an Inquiry" (1951) was accompanied by Fisher's dissenting commentary . </P>

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