eugenics

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Calling upon Darwinian evolution, Hitler convinced the German people that purging millions of people was acceptable because of the need to create a pure race; also referred to as eugenics which is now being taught in US public schools, now to American students.

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  1. noun The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding.

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  • And he was the man who coined the term eugenics, wasn't he? —  Magyar Venus
  • The importance of Malthus' argument to eugenics is too slight to warrant further discussion When the non-sustentative forms of lethal selection are considered, it is seen very clearly that man is not exempt from the workings of this law. —  Applied Eugenics
  • Under this stimulation, I read, during a year and a half, general psychology, physiology and anthropology, eugenics, all the special material I could find on Mendelism, works on mental hygiene, feeblemindedness, insanity, evolution of morals and character, and finally found a resting-place in a field which seems to be best designated as Abnormal and Behavioristic Psychology. —  An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker
  • The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea; it is at least a neater word and a more generalised one than viriculture_, which I once ventured to use Energy is an attribute of the higher races, being favoured beyond all other qualities by natural selection. —  Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
  • You can bet your life on that So the impurity lies in failing to pretend that Now we won't go into all that--eugenics or whatever damn fad you choose to call it. —  Main Street
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