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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:21 am
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Westerners's Moral Judaism Part 4
Emphasizing Human Productivity rather than Human Empathy
[quote]McCulloch went even farther, adding his own genealogical
investigation of Indiana’s thieving vagabonds, the so-called
Tribe of Ishmael. He proffered their stories as further
scientific proof of degeneration among the impoverished.
McCulloch preached to his fellow reformers at the 1888 National
Conference of Charities and Corrections that paupers were
nothing more than biologically preordained “parasites” suffering
from an irreversible hereditary condition. By 1891, McCulloch
had become president of the National Conference of Charities and
Corrections, further ingraining his degeneracy theories upon the
nation’s charity and prison officials, who were only too quick
to accept.9
Reverend McCulloch’s outspoken sermons and investigations of the
Ishmael tribe drew the attention of another leading Indianian,
biologist David Starr Jordan, president of the University of
Indiana. Convinced that paupers were indeed parasites, as
McCulloch so fervently claimed, Jordan lectured his students and
faculty to accept that some men were “dwarfs in body and mind.”
Quickly, Jordan became America’s first eminent eugenic theorist.
His 1902 book, Blood of a Nation, first articulated the concept
of “blood” as the immutable basis for race. He readily
proclaimed, “The pauper is the victim of heredity, but neither
Nature nor Society recognizes that as an excuse for his
existence.” Jordan left Indiana in 1891 to become the first
president of the newly created Stanford University, founded by
the estate of wealthy railroad entrepreneur Leland Stanford.
While at Stanford, Jordan used his position to further champion
the eugenic cause, damning paupers in his writings and leading
the like-minded elite in national eugenic
organizations.10[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 111 - 112
The First Sterilization Program were Happened in United States
[quote]On January 29, 1907, Indiana Representative Horace Reed
introduced Sharp’s bill. The measure’s phrasing was an almost
verbatim rendering of the previously vetoed Pennsylvania bill.
Three weeks later, with little debate, Indiana’s House approved
the eugenic proposal, 59 in favor and 22 opposed. About two
weeks later, again with virtually no debate, Indiana’s Senate
ratified the bill, 28 voting aye and 16 nay. This time, there
was no governor’s veto.16 Indiana thereby made its mark in
medical history, and became the first jurisdiction in the world
to legislate forced sterilization of its mentally impaired
patients, poorhouse residents and prisoners. Sharp’s knife would
now be one of a multitude, and the practice would crisscross the
United States.[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 113
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:26 am
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It was not Hitler who began to Introduce the Sterilization
Program
[quote]Clearly, the eugenics movement needed scientific
validation, standards to identify exactly who was feebleminded
and unfit, and most importantly, society’s acceptance of the
need to cut off defective families. Eugenicists in other
countries, who had been corresponding together for some years,
also felt the need to broaden acceptance of their beliefs. All
of them wanted eugenic solutions to be applied on a global
basis. Their mission, after all, was to completely reshape
humanity, not just one corner of it. Toward this end, the
Americans, working closely with their counterparts in Germany
and England, scheduled an international conference in London.
July of 1912 was selected because it coincided with a visit to
London by Stanford University’s Jordan and other eugenic
leaders.29
Galton had died in January of 1911. By that time, his original
theories of positive marriage, as well as his ideas on biometric
study, had been circumvented by a more radical London group, the
Eugenics Education Society. The Eugenics Education Society had
adopted American attitudes on negative eugenics. By now,
America’s negative eugenics had also been purveyed to
like-minded social engineers throughout Europe, especially in
Germany and the Scandinavian nations, where theories about
Nordic superiority were well received. Hence, this first
conference was aptly called the First International Congress on
Eugenics, bringing together some several hundred delegates and
speakers from across America, Belgium, England, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Spain and Norway.30
Not a few of the conferees would attend simply to investigate
the emerging field of eugenics. But many of the Europeans
attended because they harbored their own racial or ethnic biases
against their nations’ indigenous, immigrant or defective
populations. For example, Jon Alfred Mjeen of Norway was that
country’s leading raceologist and eugenicist. He believed that
crossing blond-haired Norwegians with native darkhaired Lapps
produced a defective mulatto-like breed. Another major delegate
was Alfred Ploetz, the spiritual father of Germany’s race
hygiene and eugenics movement.31
Organizers draped the conference with some of the most
prestigious names in the world. Major Leonard Darwin, son of
Charles Darwin, was appointed president. Britain’s First Lord of
the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, would represent the king.
Churchill was alarmed at Britain’s growing population of
“persons … of mental defect” and advocated a eugenic solution.
The vice presidents would include David Starr Jordan, Davenport,
Ploetz and Alexander Graham Bell. To impress American governors
and scientific organizations, the Eugenics Congress leadership
wanted the U.S. State Department to send an official American
delegate. Missouri’s representative on the all-powerful House
Appropriations Committee proffered the request. However, the
State Department could not comply because the meeting was
nongovernmental; therefore the U.S. government could not
participate.32[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 118 - 119
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:32 am
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Westerners's Moral Judaism Part 5
Empashize Intelligence rather than Moral Sensitivity
[quote]In 1912, the German psychologist William Stern had begun
referring to Binet’s original “intelligence level” as an
“intelligence age.” Stern went further, dividing the
intelligence age by the chronological age to create a ratio. In
doing so, he coined the term intelligence quotient. Four years
later, after Terman created the Stanford version of Goddard’s
Binet test, Terman and Yerkes wanted a more identifiable number,
one that could be popularized. In 1916, using the Stanford-Binet
test, Terman divided mental age by chronological age, and then
multiplied by 100. This became the American version of the
intelligence quotient. Terman nicknamed it IQ. The moniker
became an instant icon of intelligence. Scales and rankings were
devised. Those classified below a certain level, 70 scale
points, were graded as either “morons,” “imbeciles,” or
“idiots.”77[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 132
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:37 am
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Westerners's Moral Judaism Part 6
Promoting Racial Progressivism rather than Racial Idealism
[quote]...Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham. A radical
raceologist, Brigham analyzed Yerkes’s findings for the world at
large, casting them as eugenic evidence of Nordic supremacy and
the racial inferiority of virtually everyone else. Brigham’s
1922 book, A Study of American Intelligence, published by no
less than Princeton University Press, openly conceded that the
volume was based on two earlier raceological books, Madison
Grant’s virulently racist Passing of the Great Race, and William
Ripley’s equally biased Races of Europe. Before Brigham’s book
was published, a team of prestigious colleagues from the surgeon
general’s office, Harvard, Syracuse University and Princeton
pored over his manuscript, verifying his conclusions, as did
Yerkes himself, who also wrote the foreword.79
“We still find tremendous differences between the non-English
speaking Nordic group and the Alpine and Mediterranean groups,”
wrote Brigham. “The underlying cause of the nativity differences
we have shown is race and not language.” Moreover, “The decline
in intelligence is due to two factors: the change in the races
migrating to this country, and to the additional factor of the
sending of lower and lower representatives of each race…. The
conclusion [is] that our test results indicate a genuine
intellectual superiority of the Nordic group over the Alpine and
Mediterranean groupS.”80
According to Brigham, Negro intelligence was predestined by
racial heredity, but could be improved by “the greater amount of
admixture of white blood.”81
Brigham concluded, “According to all evidence available, then,
American intelligence is declining, and will proceed with an
accelerating rate as the racial admixture becomes more and more
extensive. The decline of American intelligence will be more
rapid than the decline of the intelligence of European national
groups,” he warned, “owing to the presence here of the negro.”
He added, “The results which we obtain by interpreting the Army
data … support Mr. Madison Grant’s thesis of the superiority of
the Nordic type…. “82[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 132 - 133
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:44 am
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Continuing :
[quote]During the war years, eugenic organizations proliferated
in America. Like-minded citizens found ethnic solace and even
self-vindication in the idea of biological superiority. The Race
Betterment Foundation was among the leading eugenic
organizations that sprouted around the country to augment the
work at Cold Spring Harbor. The society was founded by yet
another wealthy American, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle
Creek, Michigan. Dr. Kellogg was a member of the state board of
health and operated a health sanitarium renowned for its
alternative and fanciful food regimens. He had developed for his
patients a natural product, a cereal made of wheat flakes. In
1898, Dr. Kellogg’s brother, Will, created the corn flake, and
in 1906 he began selling it commercially through a company that
would ultimately become the cereal giant known as Kellogg
Company. In that same year, Dr. Kellogg founded the Race
Betterment Foundation to help stop the propagation of
defectives.1
The Race Betterment Foundation attracted some of the most
radical elements of the eugenics community. The organization
wanted to compile its own eugenic registry, listing the
backgrounds of as many Americans as possible, this to augment
the one being developed by the Eugenics Record Office. In 1914,
Dr. Kellogg organized the First Race Betterment Conference in
Battle Creek, Michigan. The conference’s purpose was to lay the
foundations for the creation of a super race, amid an atmosphere
of lavish banquets, stirring calls to biological action, and
scientific grandiloquence. “We have wonderful new races of
horses, cows, and pigs,” argued Dr. Kellogg. “Why should we not
have a new and improved race of men?” He wanted the “white races
of Europe … to establish a Race of Human Thoroughbreds.
“2[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 139 - 140
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:48 am
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[quote]Perhaps the most militant of the eugenic research bodies
was the Eugenics Research Association, created in June of 1913
at Cold Spring Harbor. Like many other eugenic groups, this
association was also dominated by Davenport and Laughlin. But
unlike the other eugenic bodies, the Eugenics Research
Association was determined to go far beyond family
investigations and position papers. The body was determined to
escalate its “research” into legislative and administrative
action, and public propaganda for the causes of eugenics,
raceology and Nordic race supremacy. As such, the Eugenics
Research Association brought together America’s most esteemed
eugenic medical practitioners, the field’s most respected
university professors, the movement’s most intellectual
theorists and the nation’s most rabid eugenic racists.10
Two race hatred fanatics, Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard,
achieved leadership roles within the organization. Grant was
internationally known for his bestseller, The Passing of the
Great Race, which promoted Nordic whites as the superior race.
Grant’s book, revered by eugenicists, lamented that America had
been infested by “a large and increasing number of the weak, the
broken and the mentally crippled of all races drawn from the
lowest stratum of the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans,
together with hordes of the wretched, submerged populations of
the Polish Ghetto.” Grant called these “human flotsam.” Among
America’s genetic enemies, Grant singled out Irishmen, whom he
insisted “were of no social importance.” As a eugenic remedy, he
preached: “A rigid system of selection through the elimination
of those who are weak or unfit-in other words, social
failures-would solve the whole question in a century…. “ Grant
held numerous leadership roles in the Eugenics Research
Association, including its presidency, and ultimately sat with
Davenport on the three-man executive committee12
Stoddard would write an equally belligerent bestseller,
published by Scribner’s, entitled The Rising Tide of Color
Against White World Supremacy. Harvard-educated Stoddard
defiantly summarized his science in these words: “You cannot
make bad stock into good … any more than you can turn a
cart-horse into a hunter by putting it into a fine stable, or
make a mongrel into a fine dog by teaching it tricks.” He urged
widespread segregation and immigration restrictions to combat
the unfit races, which Stoddard compared to infectious bacteria.
“Just as we isolate bacterial invasions and starve out the
bacteria by limiting the area and amount of their food-supply,
so we can compel an inferior race to remain in its native
habitat … [which will] as with all organisms, eventually limit …
its influence.” Stoddard was one of the early members of the
Eugenics Research Association, joining in response to the
association’s official invitation.13[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 142 - 144
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 3, 2024, 2:52 am
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[quote]Eventually, the eugenics movement and its supporters
began to speak a common language that crept into the general
mindset of many of America’s most influential thinkers. On
January 3, 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt wrote
Davenport, “I agree with you … that society has no business to
permit degenerates to reproduce their kind …. Some day, we will
realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty, of the good
citizen of the right type, is to leave his or her blood behind
him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the
perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.” Episcopalian Bishop
John T. Dallas of Concord, New Hampshire, issued a public
statement: “Eugenics is one of the very most important subjects
that the present generation has to consider.” Episcopalian
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Memphis, Tennessee, issued a similar
statement: “The science of eugenics … by devising methods for
the prevention of the propagation of the feebleminded, criminal
and unfit members of the community, is … one of the most
important and valuable contributions to civilization.” Dr. Ada
Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, declared publicly,
“Eugenics is ‘the greatest concern of the human race.’ The
development of civilization depends upon it.” Dr. Albert Wiggam,
an author and a leading member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, pronounced his belief: “Had Jesus
been among us, he would have been president of the First Eugenic
Congress.”42[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 153 - 154
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 8, 2024, 5:37 pm
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Root of Eugenic Practice, the Spartans, people of Western
Civilization
[quote]The old Spartans, with war always in view, used to
destroy, at birth, boys born with decided physical weakness.
Some of our present-day eugenists go farther and damn children
before their birth because of parents criminally
inclined.[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 157
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 8, 2024, 5:41 pm
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American Constitution promoted Western Culture of Eugenics, in
the Past
[quote]The men and women of eugenics wielded the science. They
were supported by the best universities in America, endorsed by
the brightest thinkers, financed by the richest capitalists.
They envisioned millions of America’s unfit being rounded up and
incarcerated in vast colonies, farms or camps. They would be
prohibited from marrying and forcibly sterilized.
Eventually-perhaps within several generation-only the white
Nordics would remain. When their work was done at home, American
eugenicists hoped to do the same for Europe, and indeed for
every other continent, until the superior race of their Nordic
dreams became a global reality.
Yet the very first sentence of the United States Constitution
protected future generations. “We the People of the United
States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice
… secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.”71
Posterity would be the monumental issue over which the forces of
eugenics struggled. To eugenicists, the future of America and
humanity itself was at stake.[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 164
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 8, 2024, 5:54 pm
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Continuing :
[quote]Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. lived a life innervated by the
great men of literature, propelled by his personal acts of
courage, and eventually gilded by the judicial preeminence
thrust upon him. He was the best America had to offer. Born in
Massachusetts in 1841, his father was a famous physician, poet,
and essayist. He had achieved literary esteem from his satirical
columns in the Atlantic Monthly, later collected for the
anthology Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Young Oliver grew up
in the company of his father’s circle of literati, including
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. Herman Melville was a neighbor at the Holmes’
summerhouse.110
It was the law, however, that would capture the imagination of
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Judges and attorneys had peopled the
Holmes family tree for three centuries. A maternal grandfather
had sat on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.111
Holmes was a Harvard scholar, but he had been brave enough to
join the rush to war in 1861, even before taking the final exams
needed for graduation. He joined the Twentieth Massachusetts
Volunteers, known as the Harvard Regiment. He fought valiantly
and was wounded three times, once in the chest at Ball’s Bluff,
once in the leg at Chancellorsville and once through the neck at
Antietam during the single bloodiest day of the war. Some
thought the scholar-turned-soldier fought to test his own
manliness; others suggested it was for” duty and honor. “112 It
was probably both.
...
Even amid the wounds of war, Holmes never lost his fascination
with the great thinkers. While recovering from injuries
sustained at Chancellorsville, Holmes read the latest
philosophical treatises. After the war, he returned to his
beloved Harvard to earn a law degree and write legal theory.114
...
His rise was rapid. In March of 1881, Holmes’ provocative
lectures on the nature of law were compiled into an anthology,
The Common Law. It was an immediate success. Within ten months
of the book’s publication, in January of 1882, Holmes was
elected a Harvard law professor by the university faculty. His
reputation as an authority on jurisprudence widened. On December
8 of that same year, before serving his first full year as a
professor, the governor of Massachusetts sent an urgent request
for Holmes to leave Harvard and assume a seat as associate
justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court. So pressed was the
governor that he implored Holmes to reply by 3 :00 P.M. of the
same day. Holmes replied on time and accepted the position. In
1899, Holmes was appointed chief justice of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court.116
Buck v. Bell would be decided in May of 1927. But the
eighty-sixyear- old Holmes was in many ways defined by the Civil
War and ethically shaped by the nineteenth century. While
recovering from the wounds of Chancellorsville, his reading
included Spencer’s Social Statics, the turning-point tract that
advocated social Darwinism and so significantly influenced
Galtonian thought. Spencer argued the strong over the weak, and
believed that human entitlements and charity itself were false
and against nature. Indeed, Holmes’ 1881 lecture series in The
Common Law also asserted that the idea of inherent rights was
“intrinsically absurd.”120
...
Moreover, the warrior-scholar seemed to believe that “might
makes right.” In his essay entitled “Natural Law,” Holmes
defined truth. “Truth,” he declared, “was the majority vote of
that nation that could lick all others.”121 1n a graduation
speech to Harvard’s class of 1895, Holmes declared the sanctity
of blindly following orders. “I do not know what is true,” he
told the audience. “I do not know the meaning of the universe.
But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is
one thing I do not doubt … that the faith is true and adorable
which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a
blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a
plan of a campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of
which he does not see the use. “122
While Holmes’ influential Supreme Court opinions and dissents
exemplified and eloquently immortalized the highest virtues of
American jurisprudence, his private exchanges reveal a different
man. Holmes reviled “do-gooders” and in 1909 he quipped to a
friend, “I doubt if a shudder would go through the spheres if
the whole ant-heap were kerosened.” In 1915, writing to John
Wigmore, dean of Harvard Law School, Holmes sneered at “the
squashy sentimentalism of a big minority” of people, who made
him “puke.” He was similarly nauseated by those “who believe in
the upward and onward-who talk of uplift, who think … that the
universe is no longer predatory. Oh, bring me a basin.”123
In the years just prior to receiving Buck v. Bell, Holmes
expressed his most candid opinions of mankind. In 1920, writing
to English jurist Sir Frederick Pollack, Holmes confessed, “Man
at present is a predatory animal. I think that the sacredness of
human life is a purely municipal idea of no validity outside the
jurisdiction. I believe that force, mitigated so far as it may
be by good manners, is the ultima ratio, and between two groups
that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy
except force.”124
...
On May 2, 1927, in the plain daylight of the Supreme Court, with
only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, Justice Holmes wrote the
opinion for the majority.
Carrie Buck is a feeble-minded white woman who was committed to
the State Colony above mentioned in due form. She is the
daughter of a feeble minded mother in the same institution, and
the mother of an illegitimate feeble minded child. She was
eighteen years old at the time of the trial of her case in the
circuit court, in the latter part of 1924. An Act of Virginia,
approved March 20, 1924, recites that the health of the patient
and the welfare of society may be promoted in certain cases by
the sterilization of mental defectives, under careful safeguard
… without serious pain or substantial danger to life; that the
Commonwealth is supporting in various institutions many
defective persons who if now discharged would become a menace
but if incapable of procreating might be discharged with safety
and become self-supporting with benefit to themselves and to
society; and that experience has shown that heredity plays an
important part in the transmission of insanity, imbecility,
&C.129
...
Holmes’ opinion summarized the extensive procedural safeguards
Virginia had applied, and concluded, “There is no doubt that in
that respect the plaintiff in error has had due process of
law.”130 He continued, and in many ways quoted Laughlin’s model
eugenical law verbatim.
The attack is not upon the procedure but upon the substantive
law. It seems to be contended that in no circumstances could
such an order be justified. It certainly is contended that the
order cannot be justified upon the existing grounds. The
judgment finds the facts that have been recited and that Carrie
Buck “is the probable potential parent of socially inadequate
offspring, likewise afflicted, that she may be sexually
sterilized without detriment to her general health and that her
welfare and that of society will be promoted by her
sterilization,” and thereupon makes the order …. We have seen
more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best
citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not
call upon those who already sap the strength of the state for
these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those
concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with
incompetence.131
Then Holmes wrote the words that would reverberate forever
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute
degenerate off-spring for crime, or to let them starve for their
imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit
from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains
compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the
Fallopian tubes.
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.132
It was over. Carrie Buck was sterilized before noon on October
19, 192 7. Her file was noted simply: “Patient sterilized this
morning under authority of Act of Assembly…. “ Her mother Emma,
residing elsewhere in the same institution, ultimately died some
years later, and was ignominiously buried in a colony graveyard
beneath tombstone marker #575. Little Vivian, the third
generation to be declared an imbecile, was raised by the
Dobbses, and enrolled in school, where she earned a place on the
honor roll. In 1932, however, Vivian died of an infectious
disease at the age of eight.133
Eugenical sterilization was now the law of the land. The
floodgates opened wide.[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 176 - 181
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