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G. P. Mudge, “Biology, Theology and Medicine in Relation to the State.” and the crippling of the nation

Filed under 1911, 1914, Charity, degeneration, dysgenic breeding, Evolution, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), imbeciles, laws of heredity, national stock, race, race betterment, social body, socialism, tuberculous

G. P. Mudge, “Biology, Theology and Medicine in Relation to the State.” London Hospital Gazette, Yol. 17, No. S. May, 1911. pp. 189-193. As quoted by Leonard Cole at the First Conference for Race Betterment in 1914. No doubt it seemeth right to alleviate misery, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to pamper …

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George William Hunter’s “Civic Biology” — the Eugenics Textbook at the Heart of the ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’

Filed under 1914, American Eugenics, American Indian, applied biology, Artificial Selection, Biological Laws, birth defects, Blond Hair, Blue Eyes, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, Caucasian, Charity, Charles Davenport, China, Civic Biology, civilization, Clarence Darrow, criminals, Darwinism, defectives, definition of eugenics, degeneration, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, eugenics, eugenics as a science, euthenics, Evolution, feeble-minded, Fit and Unfit, George William Hunter, German Eugenics, Germany, hereditary cripples, Holocaust, hygiene, individual freedom, inferior people, Inherit the Wind, insane asylums, Intermarriage, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, lethal chamber, man as animal, marriage, Mongolian (yellow race), Natural selection, Nazis, negative eugenics, Parasitism, quote collections, race, scientific racism, scientific world view, Scopes Monkey Trial, sentimentalism, social body, The Jukes, The Kallikaks

The so-called ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ was a media sensation at the time, but how it actually went down was shamelessly skewed afterwards to make it seem that the evolutionists were humble seekers of truth and those who stood against them ignorant, religious bigots. This viewpoint was perpetuated effectively through movies on the trial such as …

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Life Unworthy of Life Yesterday and Today, Science, Secularism, and the Sanctity of Life

Filed under 1920, Action T4 Program, After-birth abortion, Alberto Giubilini, Alfred Hoche, anti-semitism, applied biology, Attila the Hun, Charity, Christianity, Darwinism, Down Syndrome, eugenics, Eugenics Essays, euthanasia, Evolution, Francesca Minerva, Francis Collins, Francis Galton, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, Independent Payment Advisory Board, Irish, Jacob Appel, Jonathan Swift, Julian Savulescu, Karl Binding, legislative eugenics, life unworthy of life, Liverpool Care Pathway, Malthus, Margaret Sanger, medical killing, morality, National Socialists, Nazis, Neonatal Euthanasia, Nietzsche, Peter Singer, religion, Robert Jay Clifton, sanctity of life, science, scientific racism, separation of church and state, Steven Weinberg, The Pivot of Civilization, Wesley J. Smith

This foreword is reprinted with permission of the author and may not be copied and re-posted. The foreword originally appears in the translation of Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche’s Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life lifeunworthyoflife.com | Buy on Amazon | Kindle Life Unworthy of Life Yesterday and Today, Science, Secularism, and the …

Mass Extermination and ‘Lethal Chambers’ Widely Considered by Eugenicists in America, England, and Germay

Filed under 1890, 1900, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1922, 1930, American Eugenics, birth control, birth rate, capital punishiment, carbonic acid gas, Charity, compulsory sterilization, Constitution, Contraception, defectives, degeneration, eugenics, Eugenics Education Society, euthanasia, feeble-minded, Frank Taussig, George Bernard Shaw, George William Hunter, idiots, imbecile, infanticide, laisser-faire, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, lethal chamber, life unworthy of life, man as animal, Margaret Sanger, minimum wage, Nazis, sanctity of life, segregation, self-defense, society, sterilization, The Pivot of Civilization, W. Duncan McKim, Year

Long before the Nazis implemented the ‘Final Solution,’ American and English eugenicists had talked often of the use of ‘lethal chambers’ to deal with the pressing problem of the ‘unfit.’ You can imagine Hitler’s surprise, when, after acting on precisely what elites in America and England had long been advocating for, he was perceived as …

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The Roots of the Concentration Camp Were American and British Eugenicists, Not Nazis

Filed under 1865, 1921, 1922, 1932, abortion, birth control, Charity, compulsory marriage, concentration camps, criminals, defectives, democracy, feeble-minded, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, Genetics, Herbert Walter, Horatio Hackett Newman, hygiene, imbecile, Karl Marx, laisser-faire, lunacy, Margaret Sanger, Marxism, pauperism, philanthropy, Planned Parenthood, segregation, segregation camps, sentimentalism, sterilization, The Pivot of Civilization, Year

For what its worth, the very idea of the ‘concentration camp’ was as much American and British, if not more, as it was Nazi Germany. These ‘segregation’ camps were seen as humane and hygienic ways to prevent the breeding of ‘defective stock.’ Quotes from Eugenicists discussing such camps are provided below. No attempt is made …

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Eugenics and Evolution are Incompatible with Charity and Altruism

Filed under altruism, American Eugenics, Charitable organizations, Charity, Christianity, criminals, defectives, Evolution, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, hereditary cripples, imbeciles, insane asylums, Madison Grant, mental defectives, moral perverts, quote collections, race, sanctity of life, self-defense, sentimentalism, small pox, sterilization, The Passing of the Great Race

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

Filed under 1879, Alexander Tille, American Eugenics, aristocratic, Aryan, birth defects, Charity, Christianity, communism, Darwinism, defectives, democracy, duty, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, Germany, Madison Grant, man as animal, National Socialists, Natural selection, quote collections, race, Richard Weikart, sanctity of life, sentimentalism, social body, social organism, socialism, sterilization, The Passing of the Great Race, Virchow

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

Filed under 1879, 1900, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1921, 1922, 1930, Alexander Tille, altruism, American Eugenics, birth control, birth defects, breeders, Charity, compulsory sterilization, concentration camps, Darwinism, defectives, dysgenic breeding, E. W. MacBride, education, England, equal rights, eugenics, euthanasia, Evolution, family planning, feeble-minded, Fit and Unfit, Harry J. Haiselden, Helen Keller, hereditary courts, Hermann Klaatch, humanitarianism, idiots, imbecile, imbeciles, infanticide, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, legislative eugenics, lethal chamber, life unworthy of life, Madison Grant, man as animal, marriage, Melting Pot, mental defectives, National Socialists, philanthropy, Progressives, public school, quote collections, race, race betterment, rational selection, Richard Weikart, right to reproduce, sanctity of life, scientific world view, segregation, segregation camps, sentimentalism, Spartans, sterilization, The Passing of the Great Race, Theodore Roosevelt, W. Duncan McKim, Wisconsin, Year

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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