ID# 794:
Sermon #43: "Religion and Eugenics"
Date:
Circa 1926
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10)
Source:
American Philosophical Society, AES, 57506: Am3

794. [page number] IV [end page number] Among them were 13 presidents of our greatest colleges, 65 professors in colleges, besides many principals of other important educational institutions, 60 physicians many of whom became eminent, 100 and more clergymen, missionaries, or theological professors, 75 officers in the army and navy, 60 prominent authors and writers by whom 135 meritorious books were written and 18 important periodicals published; 33 American states and several foreign countries, and 92 American cities and many foreign cities have profited by their presence and by their beneficent activity; more than a hundred were lawyers of whom one became a very eminent professor of law; 30 became judges, 80 held public office of whom one became vice-president of the United States; three became United States senators; several became governors, members of Congress, framers of state constitutions, mayors of cities and ministers at foreign courts; one became president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; 15 railroads, many banks, insurance companies, and large industrial enterprises have been managed by them. "Almost if not every department of social progress and of public weal," says Prof. Johnson in his "Applied Eugenics", "has felt the impulse of this healthy and long-lived family. It is not known that any one of them was ever convicted of crime." Among the "finger-lakes" of New York, back in the middle of the 18th century, a lazy vagabond by the name of Jukes had two sons who married five degenerate sisters, and within one hundred years that family bred 1,200 persons of every degree of idleness, viciousness, lewdness, pauperism, disease, insanity and criminality, through six generations. Up through the seventh generation, in 1877, Dugdale found that "Of the total seven generations, 300 died in infancy; 310 were professional paupers, kept in almshouses a total of 2300 years;
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