" Тацит всячески высмеивал современных ему иудеев за религиозную истовость. Представьте, веселился Тацит, - эти мракобесы, по своим религиозным соображениям, не убивают новорожденных младенцев, даже, если совершенно очевидно, что ребенок родился хиленьким и ни на что не годным! " (Тацит обличаeт верования иудеев в V книге "Истории")
http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/232881.html - Equality & Liberal Eugenics: Science and the Left (from "Science and the Left" by Y. Levin) " Herbert Croly, founder of The New Republic, argued in 1909 that to "improve human nature by the most effectual of all means-that is, by improving the methods whereby men and women are bred" would be crucial to social reform. Margaret Sanger, the progressive activist and founder of Planned Parenthood, wrote in 1922 that "drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupidly cruel sentimentalism." That "stupidly cruel sentimentalism" was, of course, American egalitarianism. Eugenics was most fundamentally a denial of human equality. By holding the quality of the gene pool above the equality of mankind, it forced a choice between science and equality, and most American progressives made the wrong choice. "
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Тацит всячески высмеивал современных ему иудеев за религиозную истовость.
Представьте, веселился Тацит, - эти мракобесы, по своим религиозным соображениям, не убивают новорожденных младенцев, даже, если совершенно очевидно, что ребенок родился хиленьким и ни на что не годным!
" (Тацит обличаeт верования иудеев в V книге "Истории")
http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/232881.html - Equality & Liberal Eugenics: Science and the Left (from "Science and the Left" by Y. Levin)
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Herbert Croly, founder of The New Republic, argued in 1909 that to "improve human nature by the most effectual of all means-that is, by improving the methods whereby men and women are bred" would be crucial to social reform.
Margaret Sanger, the progressive activist and founder of Planned Parenthood, wrote in 1922 that "drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupidly cruel sentimentalism."
That "stupidly cruel sentimentalism" was, of course, American egalitarianism. Eugenics was most fundamentally a denial of human equality.
By holding the quality of the gene pool above the equality of mankind, it forced a choice between science and equality, and most American progressives made the wrong choice.
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