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

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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 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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Leon Cole on the Social Body and Our Duty to Future Generations

Filed under 1907, 1911, 1914, American Eugenics, applied biology, breeding horses or cattle, Charity, defectives, duty, eugenics, Evolution, feeble-minded, First Conference for Race Betterment (1914), Fit and Unfit, Francis Galton, Herbert Spencer, infanticide, Karl Pearson, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, life unworthy of life, man as animal, medical genetics, medical killing, national stock, Natural selection, nature vs nurture, philanthropy, Progressive Era, race betterment, racial progress, rational selection, right to life, sanctity of life, social body, social organism, Year

From The Relation of Philanthropy and Medicine to Race Betterment by Leon J. Cole, University of Wisconsin, at the First Conference for Race Betterment (1914) Among those who have in their treatment of this subject emphasized the importance of the natural selection viewpoint may be mentioned especially Herbert Spencer, Francis Galton, and Karl Pearson, the …

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

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Leon Cole on the Social Body and Our Duty to Future Generations

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

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

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