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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 Bernard Shaw and Murder by the State, Marriage, and Eugenics

Filed under 1910, abolition of private property, applied biology, Artificial Selection, breeding horses or cattle, Britain, capital punishiment, compulsory marriage, crypto-eugenics, dissolution of marriage, dysgenic breeding, education, Eugenics Education Society, Evolution, George Bernard Shaw, laws of heredity, legislative eugenics, lethal chamber, marriage, monogamy, morality, negative eugenics, race betterment, sexual selection, socialism, superman

The following article was found in the March 4th edition of The Daily Express in 1910. Reproduced under Fair Use Provisions. If anyone has any corrections they would like to post to the text (which was hard to read) please pass them along. Images of the most readable text are at the end of this …

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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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Eugenics and Family Planning Associated Together from the Beginning, Family Planning and Population Control Likewise

Filed under 1949, abortion, ASHG, compulsory abortion, compulsory education, compulsory marriage, compulsory sterilization, Darwinism, defectives, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, education, eugenics, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, family size, Fit and Unfit, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, H.J. Muller, individual freedom, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, legislative eugenics, Malthus, Margaret Sanger, Natural selection, over-population, Progressives, quote collections, rational selection, Roe vs. Wade

One of the ‘pioneers’ of ‘family planning,’ Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was also an avowed eugenicist and advocate for population control. That is, like many advocates of ‘family planning,’ out of one side of their mouth they talk about a “woman’s right to choose” while on the other side they say, “but …

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Letter by Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Davenport: Society should not permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.

Filed under 1913, American Eugenics, applied biology, Artificial Selection, birth defects, breeders, Charles Davenport, Darwinism, duty, dysgenic breeding, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, family size, Fit and Unfit, insane asylums, laws of heredity, man as animal, moral perverts, Natural selection, Progressive Era, rational selection, sentimentalism, Theodore Roosevelt

From The Outlook, January 3rd letter of 1913 [Source] My dear Mr. Davenport: I am greatly interested in the two memoirs you have sent me. They are very instructive, and, from the standpoint of our country, very ominous. You say that those people are not themselves responsible, that it is “society” that is responsible. I …

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The Eugenic Roots of Genetic Counseling

Filed under 1914, 1915, 1916, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1968, 1972, abortion, After-birth abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, ASHG, birth control, birth defects, compulsory sterilization, Contraception, defectives, degeneration, Down Syndrome, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, education, Elaine Freeman, eugenics, euthanasia, euthenics, every child a wanted child, Evolution, family planning, feeble-minded, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, Frederick Osborn, genetic counseling, genetic load, Genetics, Germany, H.J. Muller, Harrison Brown, Harry J. Haiselden, Helen Keller, hereditary courts, hereditary cripples, heredity clinic, Holocaust, human weeds, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, Lee R. Dice, Madison Grant, medical genetics, medical killing, meningomyelocele, mental defectives, mongolism, morality, Natural selection, Nazis, New York Times, planned evolution, quote collections, race, rational selection, sanctity of life, science, sentimentalism, social body, spina bifida, sterilization, The God Committee, The Passing of the Great Race, Year

Charity requires us to believe that most contemporary genetic counselors are not at all motivated by considerations that we would term ‘eugenic.’ However, the founders of the field left no doubt about their motivations, stating them plainly and explicitly, and characterizing them as definitely constituting eugenics. The following material raises more than reasonable doubt that …

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“The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda” by Margaret Sanger

Filed under 1921, abortion, American Eugenics, birth control, defectives, degeneration, dysgenic breeding, education, eugenics, family planning, feeble-minded, Fit and Unfit, Holocaust, Margaret Sanger, Spartans, The Pivot of Civilization

Copied from [Source] Margaret Sanger, “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda,” Oct 1921. Published Article. Source: The Birth Control Review, Oct. 1921, 5 , Margaret Sanger MicrofilmS70:913 . For related documents, see Chapter VIII of “The Pivot of Civilization,” 1922. An editorial introduction mentions the timeliness of this article in light of the recently …

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Eugenicists Shared in Common with the Nazis Concepts of the “Social Body.”

Filed under 1863, 1879, 1889, 1900, 1910, 1914, 2012, American Eugenics, August Weismann, Civic Biology, Darwinism, death rate, defectives, degeneration, duty, dysgenic breeding, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, euthanasia, Evolution, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), Greece, Helene Stocker, Herbert Spencer, immortality, John Stuart Mill, League for the Protection of Mothers, morality, Natural selection, Progressive Era, Progressives, quote collections, race betterment, Rome, social body, social organism, Utilitarianism, W. Duncan McKim, Wisconsin, Year

One of the under-appreciated elements of what animated the eugenics mindset was the view that each species could very well be conceived of as a ‘body’ of sort. A different level of moral calculation could be applied to the ‘social organism’ or ‘social body’ then the individual. This is no mere invoking of the ‘common …

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American and British Eugenicists Agree: Life Unworthy of Life

Filed under 1873, 1900, Artificial Selection, defectives, degeneration, dysgenic breeding, dysgenics, Evolution, feebleminded, Herbert Spencer, imbeciles, Laws of Nature, life unworthy of life, Natural selection, race, W. Duncan McKim

The phrase ‘life unworthy of life‘ is known particularly because of the fact that the Nazis used it when eliminating ‘defectives’ in their Action T4 project (and later, in reference to the Jews), but American and British Eugenicists also were known in terms of ‘lives unworthy of life.’ Quotes are provided below. ————- Herbert Spencer, …

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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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