Jordan wasn't the first to advocate eugenics, that would be Darwin's cousin Francis Galton. (Think that's the name.) Galton wanted to apply Darwin's survival of the fittest theory to people and advocated marrying superior people to other superior people so that the lower class would be eliminated. Jordan, however, was the first to apply it to specific races. Naturally, his own was the one worth saving and the rest had varying degrees of worth. He was in a position as president of Stanford University to embed it into the educational system. This is part of the reason for California's unique rancheria system - no other state has it - which was supposedly to give Indians not on a reservation a piece of land to make a living, but was actually to destroy tribal unity (no one tribe had a rancheria, but a mix of unrelated peoples) and force assimilation, thereby 'improving' our race. He considered the Chinese to be possibly human and more intelligent, but Indians were totally useless creatures to be eliminated - in time, of course - from humanity's gene pool.