> I think it's purely a creation of the author for the purpose of making his point It's a deliberate critique of eugenics, which was a popular and little criti

> I think it's purely a creation of the author for the purpose of making his point It's a deliberate critique of eugenics, which was a popular and little criticized school of thought at the time of writing, and which did in its original iteration claim to offer the prospect of engineering people to fit assigned social roles.