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But so-called ` ` negative '' eugenics -- the effort to clear all inborn obstacles out of the path of the coming generation -- demands our heartiest sympathy and our best co-operation, for as Galton, the founder of modern Eugenics, wrote towards the end of his life of this new science: ` ` Its first object is to check the birth-rate of the unfit, instead of allowing them to come into being, though doomed in large numbers to perish prematurely. ''
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But so-called "negative" eugenics -- the effort to clear all inborn obstacles out of the path of the coming generation -- demands our heartiest sympathy and our best co-operation, for as Galton, the founder of modern Eugenics, wrote towards the end of his life of this new science: "Its first object is to check the birth-rate of the unfit, instead of allowing them to come into being, though doomed in large numbers to perish prematurely."
Little Essays of Love and Virtue Havelock Ellis 1899
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We need a broader interpretation of the term Eugenics, so that we may gain
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And while we're on the subject, prior to WWII, the U.S. was the world leader in Eugenics and a lot of very smart, rational, GOVERNMENT thinkers decried the amount of money spent on maintaining various social necessities for the people of certain less desireable races or mental accuities, and put various programs into place to reign in the social and revenue costs of these "undesirables."
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“Eugenics is †¦ the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”
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Eugenics is not the natural result of evolutionary theory, any more than the Crusades are the natural result of Christianity.
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Eugenics is not the natural result of evolutionary theory, any more than the Crusades are the natural result of Christianity.
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Posted in Eugenics, Repost on April 23rd, 2008 by MikeGene
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From Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.
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From Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.
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