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EA Ross — The Coolie cannot outdo the American, but can underlive him

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SOURCE [This article needs proofreading. Feel free to check the original and send a corrected version to us] DR. EDWARD A. ROSS RESIGNS. The Head of the Department of Economics Leaves the University at the Demand of Mrs. Stanford. Dr. Edward A. Ross, head of the Department of Economics and Sociology, and one of the …

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Karl Pearson on ‘race-suicide’ (1907)

Filed under 1907, breeders, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, insane asylums, Karl Pearson, national degeneration, Year

Quoted by Collin Wells in 1907: As Karl Pearson has recently said: The great problem is whether limitation has not begun at the wrong end. If a nation is to be strong, there must be wastage; the reckless and diseased must not be in a condition to multiply like the strong and able. At present …

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Taussig: The breeding of men, eugenics, and progress. 1911

Filed under 1911, American Eugenics, aristocratic, birth rate, breeding horses or cattle, civilization, criminals, death rate, defectives, duty, eugenics, family (the institution of), family planning, Frank Taussig, human breeding, John Stuart Mill, laws of heredity, national stock, Parasitism, pauperism, paupers, Political Economy, poverty, progress, Progressive Era, Progressives, race suicide, racial progress, rational selection, science, Scientific Management, society, Year

SOURCE: Frank Taussig, Principles of Economics, Volume II, 1911. Pages 233-237. This movement is steadily extending, and is gradually affecting not only those who are usually thought of as being in a more special sense “native born,” but the descendants of the immigrants as well. The influence of free institutions and of free opportunities is …

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Eugenics as a Religion and Social Darwinism, Collin Wells

Filed under 1907, American Eugenics, applied biology, Biological Laws, China, Christianity, civilization, degeneration, democracy, duty, education, eugenics as religion, Evolution, family (the institution of), family planning, family size, fertility control, Fit and Unfit, Francis Galton, human breeding, individualism, intelligence, Japan, Karl Pearson, man as animal, marriage, Mormonism, national degeneration, Progressive Era, race suicide, religion, science, Scientific Management, sentimentalism, socialism, Sydney Webb, unfit, Year

Source: Dr. Collin Wells, “Social Darwinism” a paper presented in 1907, found in The American Journal of Sociology, pages 706-709 Finally, what is the evolutionary value of certain ideals? Let us take individualism, the ideal of democracy, which has tacitly figured in many of the phenomena to which I have already referred. Let us go …

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Julian Huxley: Population Control, Eugenics, and Birth Control all part of the same Program

Filed under 1962, altruism, American Eugenics, Andrew Carnegie, artificial insemination, birth control, birth defects, Britain, China, compulsory sterilization, compulsory vaccination, Contraception, Darwinism, defectives, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, Efficiency Movement, eugenics, Evolution, Evolutionary Humanism, family planning, family size, fertility control, Ford Foundation, Francis Galton, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, H.J. Muller, homosexuality, human breeding, Humanism, India, insane asylums, insanity, intelligence, IQ, Jamaica, Japan, John Rockefeller, Julian Huxley, liberalism, marriage, medical genetics, mental defectives, national efficiency, national stock, nature vs nurture, negative eugenics, Negro, over-population, Parasitism, philanthropy, planned evolution, population control, population explosion, positive eugenics, poverty, Progressives, public health, public welfare, race, race hygiene, rational selection, science, social organism, social problem group, sterilization, technology, United Nations, vaccination, vasectomy, Year

Contemporary advocates for birth control exhibit no awareness whatsoever that birth control was always conceived in the context of ‘eliminating the unfit,’ ie., eugenics. Eugenics, in turn, was considered a straight-forward logical extension of Darwinism. Eugenics was seen as human control of human evolution, and was always tied into discussions on ‘population control.’ These are …

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The Geneticists Manifesto (1939) or Social Biology and Population Improvement, by H.J. Muller

Filed under 1939, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, Biological Laws, birth control, birth defects, civilization, communism, compulsory sterilization, conscious selection, Contraception, Darwinism, defectives, degeneration, Dobzhansky, duty, education, eugenics, eugenics as a science, Evolution, family planning, fertility control, genetic engineering, genetic load, Genetics, H.J. Muller, intelligence, J.B.S. Haldane, Lamarck, man as animal, Natural selection, one world government, progress, propaganda, race, religion, science, scientific world view, sterilization, the State, Year

Social Biology and Population Improvement (aka, the Geneticist’s Manifesto) by H.J. Muller [Source #1, Source #2] The Seventh International Congress of Genetics adjourned at Edinburgh only three days before World War II got under way. It is interesting to recall that just before the shooting started a group of geneticists at that Congress-informally formulated what …

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Eugenics Quote of the Day: Compulsory Abortion is Constitutional–says John Holdren

Filed under 1977, abortion, American Eugenics, authority, compulsory abortion, compulsory marriage, compulsory sterilization, compulsory vaccination, Constitution, Contraception, democracy, duty, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, family planning, family size, fertility control, John Holdren, legislative eugenics, over-population, population control, social body, sterilization, Year

QUOTE: Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society. [HT] Other quotes by John Holdren: AND: One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate …

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Eugenics Quote of the Day: ‘Defective (ie, ‘disabled’) people should not be allowed to reproduce for the good of the state.’ RZ Mason, mayor of Appleton, WI

Filed under 1879, American Eugenics, Biological Laws, birth defects, Charity, defectives, degeneration, duty, education, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, euthanasia, Evolution, feeble-minded, Fit and Unfit, Herbert Spencer, Natural selection, Progressive Era, rational selection, right to reproduce, scientism, Wisconsin, Year

R.Z. Mason, mayor of Appleton, WI, “The Duty of the State in its Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb, the Blind, the Idiotic, the Crippled and Deformed, and the Insane.” [Source] In the progress of modern civilization, the state has come slowly to a recognition of certain duties and obligations to these unfortunate classes. At …

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The Duty of the State in the Treatment of the Deformed: R. Z. Mason, Appleton WI, 1879

Filed under 1879, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, aristocratic, authority, Biological Laws, birth defects, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, carbonic acid gas, Charitable organizations, Charity, compulsory education, Darwinism, defectives, degeneration, drunkard, duty, dysgenic breeding, education, eugenics, euthanasia, every child a wanted child, Evolution, feeble-minded, Fit and Unfit, genetic counseling, Herbert Spencer, hereditary cripples, idiots, imbecile, imbeciles, immortality, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, legislative eugenics, life unworthy of life, lunacy, man as animal, marriage, medical genetics, mental defectives, national stock, philanthropy, progress, Progressive Era, Progressives, public school, race, race betterment, rational selection, religion, right to life, right to reproduce, science, scientific world view, sentimentalism, social organism, Wisconsin, Year

R.Z. Mason, mayor of Appleton, WI, “The Duty of the State in its Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb, the Blind, the Idiotic, the Crippled and Deformed, and the Insane.” [Source / Italics added, bold text added] In the progress of modern civilization, the state has come slowly to a recognition of certain duties and …

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Joseph Fletcher, A Right to Die; Down Syndrome people are not persons and OUGHT to be killed

Filed under 1968, abortion, birth defects, defectives, Down Syndrome, duty, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, euthanasia, every child a wanted child, humanitarianism, idiots, Joseph Fletcher, lethal chamber, sanctity of life, sentimentalism, Year

[People] have no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down’s syndrome baby away, whether it’s “put away” in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible lethal sense. It is sad; yes. Dreadful. But it carries no guilt. True guilt arises only from an offense against a person, and a Down’s is not a person.

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