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... an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics. When the novel was written in the late 19th century, England's scientific community was engulfed by debates on animal vivisection. Interest groups were even formed to tackle the issue: the British Union for the Abol...

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...erialized novel, being published 14 years after the first. It was put into Gutenberg just last year.The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch enemy, the Eddore. The initial chapters cover the K...

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...ge of forced motherhood, but would elevate all of society. The original fight for birth control was closely tied to the labor movement as well as the Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. (Summary by Becky)...

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...hemently disagreed. Chesterton had no difficulty standing up for what he believed. He was one of the few journalists to oppose the Boer War. His 1922 Eugenics and Other Evils attacked what was at that time the most progressive of all ideas, the idea that the human race could and should breed a superior version of itself. In the Nazi experience, history demonstrated the wis...

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...al insemination to ‘improve the human breed’ so to speak.” —“You mean eugenics?” —“Yes. Eugenics in ways that Hitler or Churchill never ... ...ents have been sterilized to prevent them from having children. There was a eugenics movement in the United States and northern Europe during the fir... ...est I still think that it is a totalitarian idea and it seems to smack of a eugenics approach to having children. You may not like it when I bring up... ...ere two major factors in his Nazi philosophy.” —“We’ve already discussed eugenics. Yes it was tried in Nazi Germany but it was also attempted in ...

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...pt to increase the level of intelligence of its population. The attempt at eugenics was aimed at getting the highly educated women, those who were ha... ...r the birth of their second child. Certainly a wise approach to voluntary eugenics. “A few years later the preferences for children of the ed... ... to every level of our society. We don‟t want to be accused of genocide or eugenics. But admittedly it is more difficult for the poorer people to mee...

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... and other biotechnologies. Nazi Germany had a state- sponsored and state-mandated eugenics program in the 1930's. Yet, this is another variant of... ...d other nations. They are and were also an integral part of every program of active eugenics. The arguments against killing someone who hasn't expr... ...s and functions: bare necessities to be utilized and consumed, not speculated on. Eugenics "It is clear that modern medicine has created a serious... ...giene - as a form of euthanasia. German doctors were enthusiastic proponents of an eugenics movements rooted in 19th century social Darwinism. Luke... ...e 'devoid of value'" It is this association with the hideous Nazi regime that gave eugenics - a term coined by a relative of Charles Darwin, Sir Fr... ...on", as the title of his controversial tome puts it. The crux of the argument for eugenics is that a host of technological, cultural, and social d... ...ise have been culled by natural selection to the betterment of the entire species. Eugenics may be based on a literal understanding of Darwin's met... ...genetic properties of the parents. Neither of these conditions is farfetched." The eugenics debate is only the visible extremity of the Man vs. Nat... ...of a successful evolution, rather than the beginning of an inexorable decline. The eugenics movement turns this argument on its head. They accept t...

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... and other biotechnologies. Nazi Germany had a state- sponsored and state-mandated eugenics program in the 1930's. Yet, this is another variant of... ...d other nations. They are and were also an integral part of every program of active eugenics. The arguments against killing someone who hasn't expr... ...s and functions: bare necessities to be utilized and consumed, not speculated on. Eugenics "It is clear that modern medicine has created a serious... ...giene - as a form of euthanasia. German doctors were enthusiastic proponents of an eugenics movements rooted in 19th century social Darwinism. Luke... ...e 'devoid of value'" It is this association with the hideous Nazi regime that gave eugenics - a term coined by a relative of Charles Darwin, Sir Fr... ...on", as the title of his controversial tome puts it. The crux of the argument for eugenics is that a host of technological, cultural, and social d... ...ise have been culled by natural selection to the betterment of the entire species. Eugenics may be based on a literal understanding of Darwin's met... ...genetic properties of the parents. Neither of these conditions is farfetched." The eugenics debate is only the visible extremity of the Man vs. Nat... ...of a successful evolution, rather than the beginning of an inexorable decline. The eugenics movement turns this argument on its head. They accept t...

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...e least palatable regimes in the world: together with Nazi Germany it had a working eugenics program (the 1935 anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws and the N...

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... the selective depopulation of the lower classes is where the idea of planned eugenics originated from. The concept of planned genocide; eugenics o... ...le. The motives of hatred, cowardice, deception, poisoning, racism, genocide, eugenics, punishment, evasion of responsibility, greed; the complete o...

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...aunt, Miss Laura Delane Porter. Miss Porter’s claim to fame is her authorship of books and pamphlets aimed at bettering the world through hygiene and eugenics (the highly questionable “science” of race improvement by restricting mating to superior types deemed suited to each other). Against her father’s strong objections, but with Aunt Laura's approval, Ruth marries Kirk a...

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... Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics,” said Willersley. “It was a woman,” I sai... ...on discussion of State Help for Mothers, and I put a series of articles on eugenics, upon the fall in the birth-rate, and similar topics in the Blue W... ...ifica- tion. But, indeed, when we became lovers there was small thought of Eugenics between us. Ours was a mutual and not a philoprogenitive passion. ... ...hoarding. And so it was the Endowment of Motherhood as a practical form of Eugenics got into English politics. Plutus, our agent, was scared out of hi...

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...be quite possible and very interesting for prosperous people interested in Eugenics to create a trust for the offspring of a selected band of benefici...

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...ng disputatious and rather tiring walk to Drayton—they had been talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American tro...

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... 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. As I say, first you sh...

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...nfinite emotions of love are replaced by the exact simplicity of perfected Eugenics. But even by then, I think, women would not have changed much; and... ...ourne begins his Ascending Effort with a remark by Sir Francis Galton upon Eugenics that “if the principles he was advocating were to be- come effecti...

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...ould be an unbearable tyranny, without even the excuse of justice or sound eugenics, they will recon- sider their morality and remodel the law. THE PE...

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... applications, those penetra- tions towards intimate qualities, that makes eugenics, for example, faintly but persistently uncomfortable. It is indeed...

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... trustworthy one. Y ou can understand that; it is a plain propo- sition in eugenics. But if I tell you that I have chosen this common pugilist because...