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The ‘Minimum Wage’ as a way to make ‘defectives stand out’ for possible eugenic selection, 1913

Filed under 1913, birth defects, compulsory sterilization, concentration camps, defectives, dysgenic breeding, Efficiency Movement, idiots, legislative eugenics, Progressive Era, Progressives, race, right to reproduce, segregation camps, sterilization, unemployable, Year

Henry R. Seager, “The Minimum Wage as Part of a Program for Social Reform.” 1913. [SOURCE] As the enumeration of these benefits suggests, important reform to accompany minimum wage be comprehensive provision for industrial and trade education vocational guidance. Starvation wages are due frequently to exploitation, frequently to physical, mental and moral defects in the …

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“Strategic Planning for Mental Health” by J. R. Rees, 1940

Filed under 1940, Britain, crypto-eugenics, education, Efficiency Movement, Evolution, insanity, intelligence, mental defectives, progress, propaganda, psychiatry, public health, race, Year

Strategic Planning for Mental Health By Colonel J. R. (John Rawlings) Rees, M.D. [SOURCE: mental-health-vol-1-no-4-october-1940] Summary of an address given at the Annual Meeting of the National Council for Mental Hygiene on June 18th, 1940. By Colonel J. R. Rees, M.D. It would be hard to imagine a time more unusual or more trying than …

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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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Julian Huxley: Diversity and Eugenics in Education

Filed under 1964, American Eugenics, Dwight Ingle, education, Efficiency Movement, equal rights, Evolution, Evolutionary Humanism, Humanism, Julian Huxley, liberalism, mental defectives, national efficiency, planned evolution, Progressives, public school, Year

Humanism and eugenics have long been associated together, although it is the brave secularist today who would dream of admitting it. In this 1964 excerpt from his essay, “Education and Humanism” (found in Evolutionary Humanism, pg 135), Julian Huxley is reflecting on the need to transform education into an evolutionary mechanism, which, by virtue of …

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Eugenics Quote of the Day: Birth Control is about Weeding out the Unfit; so says Margaret Sanger

Filed under 1920, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, birth control, birth defects, conscious selection, Contraception, dysgenic breeding, Efficiency Movement, eugenics, eugenics quote of the day, every child a wanted child, family planning, feebleminded, Fit and Unfit, human weeds, Margaret Sanger, Natural selection, Oops!, race, racial progress, rational selection, Women and the New Race, Year

“Birth control itself … is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.” So says MARGARET SANGER.

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Defective Genes are Like Pathogenic bacteria and viruses the Law Must Control

Filed under 1989, abortion, American Eugenics, applied biology, Biological Laws, birth defects, compulsory abortion, compulsory sterilization, compulsory vaccination, defectives, degeneration, dysgenics, Efficiency Movement, eugenics, eugenics as a science, every child a wanted child, Frederick Osborn, genetic counseling, genetic engineering, Genetics, Year

As quoted in The New Diagnostics by Dorothy Nelkin and Laurence Tancredi, 1989 (pg 13-14) Although the old eugenic generalizations have been cast off, the logic behind them persists, refueled from diagnostic tests and justified in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, and cost. Thus some geneticists suggest the social importance of improving the “gene pool.” For …

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Eugenics is Darwinism and Evolution Applied

Filed under 1879, 1895, 1914, 1921, adaptation, American Eugenics, applied biology, Bible, Biological Laws, Charles Darwin, civilization, conscious selection, Darwinism, defectives, definition of eugenics, Dobzhansky, dysgenics, Efficiency Movement, eugenics, eugenics as a science, euthenics, Evolution, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), Fit and Unfit, Francis Darwin, Francis Galton, Frederick Osborn, H.J. Muller, Helene Stocker, human breeding, inferior people, Karl Pearson, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, League for the Protection of Mothers, national stock, Natural selection, Origin of the Species, Paul Popenoe, Plato, quote collections, race, race betterment, racial progress, rational selection, Richard Weikart, right to life, sanctity of life, science, scientific world view, The Eugenics Review, Wisconsin, Year

In the essay on the definition of eugenics hosted on this site, it is shown that eugenics was merely seen as Darwinism intelligently applied to the human race. On this page, further corroboration of this will be provided in the words of the eugenicists themselves. Emphasis is added. —————————– R.Z. Mason, mayor of Appleton, WI, …

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Frederick Taylor and the Connection Between Eugenics, Capitalism, and Communism: Scientific Management

Filed under 1911, 1915, American Eugenics, Andrew Carnegie, August Weismann, Bolshevism, communism, compulsory education, compulsory sterilization, Darwinism, education, Edward L. Thorndike, Edwin Black, Efficiency Movement, Eugenicist Profiles, eugenics, Eugenics Essays, Frederick Taylor, Friedrich Engels, German, German Eugenics, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, hygiene, John Rockefeller, John Taylor Gatto, Joseph Dejarnette, Karl Marx, Madison Grant, Marxism, Nazis, Nuremberg, Origin of the Species, philanthropy, progress, Progressive Era, Progressives, public school, race hygiene, Richard Stites, Richard Weikart, science, Scientific Management, scientific world view, scientism, segregation camps, social body, socialism, Soviet Union, Stephan Chorover, Taylorism, The Passing of the Great Race, the State, V. L. Komarov

Buy “Scientific Management” on Amazon | Kindle | Nook Frederick Taylor and the Connection Between Eugenics, Capitalism, and Communism: Scientific Management Frederick Winslow Taylor has blood on his hands. Judging from the reaction typical of those familiar with Taylor’s work, the idea that he, or at least, his ideas, were complicit in any great crimes …

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