Word: eugenist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
...Statistics appearing in The Builders of America by Ellsworth Huntington, Yale social scientist, and Leon F. Whitney, eugenist, show that for every 20 clergymen one clergyman's son is listed in Who's Who, whereas the proportion for other professions is 46 to 1; for skilled labor 1,600 to 1; for unskilled labor 48,000 to 1 (figures based on 1922-23 edition of Who's Who). Famed sons of clergymen: Henry Van Dyke, William Lyon Phelps, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Otis Skinner, John Grier Hibbeii, Irving Fisher, Charles Evans Hughes...