We civilised men do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick .... Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man.

Logic, philosophy, pacifism

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Icarus, or The Future of Science

Date / Period

1924

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Shocking

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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugenics

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