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...Fort Fairfield Review...
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Many a sociologist and historian used to agree with Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn that Anglo-Saxons were God's special gift to earth. Osborn was a leading eugenist in the days when many believed that the "unfit" should be weeded out rather than cared for under public health measures which coddled weaklings, allowed them to reproduce, ultimately lead to an inferior stock. While these ideas have occasionally furnished fodder for opponents of public housing, relief, the New Deal, the only places where they are still flourishing today are Nazi Germany and Italy. Long before Henry Osborn died...
Among the leaders of the new, environmental eugenics is Frederick Osborn of Manhattan, 51-year-old nephew of the late Henry Fairfield. A onetime banker and railroad executive (president of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton R. R.), Frederick Osborn by 1928 decided to devote his energies to something he liked. Having discussed many times the problems of heredity with his uncle, he took it up seriously, is now a director of the American Eugenics Society. Last week, in his Preface to Eugenics (Harper; $2.75), Mr. Osborn presented the scientific evidence to demolish the last remnants of his uncle's fancy...
...youngest child in this series (13 years and three months at the date of confinement)," said Dr. Fairfield, "was further remarkable because the putative father of her baby was also only 13. Of the paternity there can be no absolute certainty, but the little fellow had no doubt himself and even went so far as to borrow his elder brother's long trousers and bowler hat to visit his offspring with becoming dignity. He had indeed performed the . . . impossible, for it is an 'irrebuttable presumption' of English law that a boy under 14 cannot procreate a child...