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Margaret Sanger on “human weeds” — “Real Facts About Birth Control”

Filed under 1923, Annie Besant, Bertrand Russell, birth control, birth rate, China, Dean Inge, death rate, feeble-minded, feminism, fertility control, H. G. Wells, Havelock Ellis, human weeds, immigration, infanticide, IQ, Japan, John Stuart Mill, legislative eugenics, Malthus, Margaret Sanger, Progressive Era, race suicide, scientific racism, scientism, unfit

Margaret Sanger, “Apostle of Birth Control Sees Cause Gaining Here,” 8 Apr 1923. Source. Which asserts it comes from from the “New York Times, Apr. 8, 1923, XII..” and also says: “This article was reprinted by the American Birth Control League in a flyer with two other newspaper articles as “Real Facts About Birth Control,” …

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

Filed under duty, E.A. Ross, Expertise, minimum wage, Progressive Era, Progressives, race, science, scientific world view, transcription needed

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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CF Dight’s Crusade With Hitler for Genetic Counseling

Filed under 1933, Action T4 Program, birth defects, CF Dight, epilectics, eugenics, eugenics as a science, feeble-minded, German Eugenics, Germany, Hitler, Human Betterment Association, Minnesota, Nazis, race betterment, science, scientific racism, scientific world view, social body, Year

Many people believe the Nazis were entirely different animals than the rest of humanity, but the truth is that they had many ideological ‘friends’ elsewhere, and no, not in the circles of white supremacy. Rather, they were doctors and scientists and other professionals of good standing, well regarded in America at the time. CF Dight …

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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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Scientific American: “The Science of Breeding Better Men” 1911

Filed under 1911, American Breeder's Association, American Eugenics, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, degeneration, education, England, epilectics, eugenics, eugenics as a science, family (the institution of), Fit and Unfit, Francis Galton, human breeding, insane asylums, insanity, Jukes, Karl Pearson, laws of heredity, legislative eugenics, lunacy, man as animal, marriage, national degeneration, national stock, Nazis, paupers, race, science, social body, the State, Thomas Huxley, unfit, Year

Editorial from a 1911 edition of Scientific American [Source]: Sci-Am’s Editor’s note: This editorial was written and published in 1911. Although our editors of a century ago pondered some lofty aspirations for the orderly future of humans, it was only three decades later that the brutal reality of a Nazi social order suffused with a …

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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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Excerpt: Darwin’s Dilemma as told by Bertrand Russell, from Designing Babies

Filed under 1999, American Eugenics, applied biology, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, dysgenic breeding, education, eugenics, family (the institution of), Fit and Unfit, G.E. Moore, Genetics, German Eugenics, human breeding, inferior people, liberalism, mental defectives, scientism, society, Year

From Designing Babies: The Brave New World of Reproductive Technology by Roger Gosden. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York. 1999. Page 3-4 According to Darwin’s theory, natural selection decides which individuals are fit to survive and breed. So powerful was this idea that it quickly engaged not only fellow biologists but also intellectuals who were …

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Julian Huxley: Birth Control, Family Planning or Population Control All the Same Thing; Taking Control of Human Evolution (1963)

Filed under 1963, abortion, birth control, birth rate, Catholics, China, conscious selection, Contraception, education, Evolution, family planning, family size, fertility control, India, Japan, Julian Huxley, over-population, planned evolution, population control, population explosion, religion, scientism, society, suffering, United Nations, Year

Julian Huxley is a direct descendant of “Darwin’s Bulldog”, Thomas Huxley. In this lecture from 1963, he makes it clear that birth control is family planning is population control. He argues that the goal should be improving the ‘quality of human beings.’ The word for that, of course, is eugenics. In other words, population control …

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Charity a Hindrance to Natural Selection

Filed under 1914, alcoholism, American Eugenics, Artificial Selection, Biological Laws, birth rate, breeders, breeding horses or cattle, Charitable organizations, Charity, conscious selection, Darwinism, death as creative, death rate, defectives, definition of eugenics, education, eugenics, eugenics as a science, Evolution, family planning, Francis Galton, human breeding, laws of heredity, Laws of Nature, legislative eugenics, man as animal, Plato, poverty, race betterment, science, tuberculous, Year

In the following foreword from a compilation of 12 eugenic lectures (1914), we see that eugenics is perceived as merely applied evolution. Furthermore, ‘modern man,’ being a sympathetic being, keeps alive those that should die. With luck, principles of breeding already used with animals will be brought to bear on humans. ——————- Foreword by Lewellys …

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