Thursday, July 28, 2005

The First Eugenicist

Here's a book review on Francis Galton.You'll begin to understand the Nazi thought process:
in the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell, liberal Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writing for the 8-to-1 majority, justified a woman’s forced sterilization on the grounds that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” In socialist Sweden, such sterilizations would last into the 1970s.
Reason