Brave new world from 1921: "That was well enough for determining men capable of becoming front line troops. But we need to select the best, not the average."

Eugen Rev. 1922 Oct;14(3):174-86.

The true aristocracy: An address contributed to the international eugenics congress held in New York in September, 1921.

Adami G.

GEORGE ADAMI, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.S., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.

"For eugenic purposes, however, it will never do to take over the National Service grading. We do not want to clump together the average, those just below and all above the average into one common
group. That was well enough for determining men capable of becoming front line troops. But we need to select the best, not the average. Thus as I suggested three years ago,* just as the army for its purposes recognised the categories below the mean, so for our purposes we might well establish, as shown in the diagram, three classes above, making in all seven classes.

In this way Class A would contain the very pick of manhood, a select class of some 2 per cent. of the whole body, men of exceptional all round physical development."