Category: right to life

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 …

4 comments

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 …

2 comments

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, …

2 comments

Category: right to life

Eugenics is Darwinism and Evolution Applied

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Category: right to life

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

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

Eugenics is Darwinism and Evolution Applied

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Categories