Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Human Sensibilities. "I find it rather difficult to understand why human beings are so inordinately sensitive about themselves as animal organisms, as contrasted with their comparative callousness in regard to their conduct, their institutions, and all of their extra-organic manifestations...
...years ago in the depth of Depression and is now a $30,000,000-a-year industry based squarely on theft but supporting a sizable chunk of his State's population in a manner to which it has become thoroughly accustomed. The coal' leggers rumble ominously about "human rights." After a personal visit to the bootleg fields last year, Governor Earle appointed a five-man Anthracite Commission to find an answer...
...there is a touch of the reformer about Dr. Hooton, and beyond his immediate pessimism a sort of long-sighted optimism. "We must improve man," he says, "before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave. The human improvement required is primarily biological and we do not yet know how to effect it. But there are enough clever youngsters to find out, if only they can be shown the necessity of tackling the problem. They at any rate will know the truth, and perhaps it will make them free. Free from what? From imbeciles and morons who are allowed...
...matter of fact," says Dr. Hooton, "if I were asked in what occupations the United States indubitably leads the world, I should reply without hesitation, dentistry and plumbing." Yet in the mouth of civilized man he finds a chamber of horrors which shows perfectly well which way human evolution is going. Caries, pyorrhea and malocclusion (failure of upper and lower teeth to engage properly) are rare among savages-"at least until the savage comes in contact with civilization, missionaries, canned foods, groceries and candy.... In my opinion there is one and only one course of action which will check...
...Human Hairlessness. "If you were respectable anthropoid apes catching your first glimpse of a specimen of man, your modesty would be shocked by the spectacle of his obscene nakedness. Indeed, even to man himself it is a well-nigh insupportable sight, unless he be a savage devoid of culture, or a nudist devoid of sensibility...