ID# 620:
"The science of eugenics and sex-life, love, marriage, maternity: the regeneration of the human race," by W.J. Hadden, C.H. Robinson, and M.R. Melendy
Date:
1930
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26)
Source:
Cold Spring Harbor, Micklos, The Science of Eugenics,pg 1

&quote;The science of eugenics and sex-life, love, marriage, maternity: the regeneration of the human race,&quote; by W.J. Hadden, C.H. Robinson, and M.R. Melendy

[boxed text] The Science of Eugenics The Improvement of the Human Race as Applied to the Responsibility of Bringing Children in the World - Weeding out Degeneracy - Efficiency of Marriage - Physical and Mental Attributes Requisite - Heredity from Parents and Remote Ancestry, Selection, Elimination and Environment - Infancy to Maturity the Critical Period. [end boxed text] Part I. Chapter I. The Science of Eugenics We are at a critical period in the history of civilization. Signs of weakness, degeneracy, increase of vice and crime, inadequacy of power to perform physical and social duties abound on every hand. We can not return to the ancient, or Spartan method of weeding out incompetents by extinction, but the proper breeding of men may be regulated and directed with as much success and profit as that of plants and animals. The tendency of plants, animals, and man, as the highest in rank in the animal kingdom, if left to themselves is backward to an original uncultivated type. This is usually called "degeneracy" for want of a better name. It is the beginning, or "scrub" stock which it has taken so many pains to raise to perfection by arduous and careful cultivation, in breeding and elimination. Who would suspect that the luscious tomato of our markets sprang from the deadly nightshade, and if left to 1

Copyright 1999-2004: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; American Philosophical Society; Truman State University; Rockefeller Archive Center/Rockefeller University; University of Albany, State University of New York; National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument; University College, London; International Center of Photography; Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem; and Special Collections, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The images and text in this Archive are solely for educational and scholarly uses. The materials may be used in digital or print form in reports, research, and other projects that are not offered for sale. Materials in this archive may not be used in digital or print form by organizations or commercial concerns, except with express permission.