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  1. Helen Keller: Physicians Juries for Defective Babies, Article in the New Republic, 1915 — 9 comments
  2. Crypto-Eugenics: Quotes of Eugenicists Discussing the Need for a Covert Eugenics Program — 7 comments
  3. Joseph Fletcher, A Right to Die; Down Syndrome people are not persons and OUGHT to be killed — 6 comments
  4. Frederick Taylor and the Connection Between Eugenics, Capitalism, and Communism: Scientific Management — 5 comments
  5. The Duty of the State in the Treatment of the Deformed: R. Z. Mason, Appleton WI, 1879 — 4 comments

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Eugenics and Evolution are Incompatible with Charity and Altruism

One of the common themes of eugenic writers is that if Darwinism and evolution were properly understood, charity and altruism could very well inflict a great harm on a population, and indeed, threatening to do just that.  This post will catalog quotes of eugenicists making that argument. ——— From Madison Grant in The Passing of …

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Christianity and Eugenics Diametrically Opposed

One of the common themes that surfaces in the writings of eugenicists is how Christianity is the antithesis of the eugenics mindset.  Catholics in particular are often singled out.  No person educated in evolution and Darwinism could possibly stand opposed to eugenics–or remain a Christian.  At the very least, tenets of religious faith that stress …

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The Obstacle of Sentiment and Sentimentalists to Pure Scientific Application

One of the common themes that surfaces in eugenic writings is their annoyance that others do not act on the logical implications of Science.  Note that, in the main, they are not taking issue with people who do not agree with their conclusions, but rather those who do agree–but will not act on them.  This …

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The Promise of Race Culture, Abortion, and Every Child a Wanted Child

The Promise of Race Culture by Caleb Williams Saleeby Found in Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics, edited by Horatio Hackett Newman, Professor of Zoology in the University of Chicago, in 1921; Newman also gave testimony at the ‘Scopes Monkey’ trial.   Page 503. Now no legislation conceivable will wholly cure this evil nor avert its …

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Subsidizing the Fit: An American Evolutionist and Eugenicist Endorses early German Efforts to Establish an Aryan Race

Chapter XXXV:  Human Conservation / subsection: Subsidizing the Fit by Herbert E. Walter Found in Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics, edited by Horatio Hackett Newman, Professor of Zoology in the University of Chicago, in 1921; Newman also gave testimony at the ‘Scopes Monkey’ trial.   Page 480-481 The following unconfirmed newspaper clipping illustrates the point …

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