mending the ills of the world

It seemed to me then that to prevent the multiplication of people below a certain standard, and to encourage the multiplication of exceptionally superior people, was the only real and permanent way of mending the ills of the world.

-- Mankind in the Making by H.G. Wells

via The Gene: An Intimate History by Mukherjee, Siddhartha.

see also Utopian Pessimist