Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussions of the moral aspects of birth control have brought forth some odd contentions. It is maintained that birth control would cause racial deterioration; in the first place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the second place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the third place because there is an association between fine minds and feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where...
...quite the fashion for ignoramuses to make fun of eugenics. Unfortunately their witty observations do not change the situation. Feeblemindedness, epilepsy, certain types of insanity and numerous physical abnormalities are hereditary. Every country is afflicted with more than a sufficient percentage of these undesirables. An increasing proportion means racial deterioration. And the birth rate of those of low mentality everywhere is greater than the birth rate of those of high mentality...
...squabbles of 1916-22. Most interesting are pictures of the escape of 200 prisoners from Curragh Prison Camp, the burning of the Dublin Customs House, street fighting in the city. In spite of paucity of entertainment, the film holds the attention of those whose feelings are swayed by political, racial considerations...
...older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough to shock blood out the tyrant's nose in a murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife, with her jumbled accumulation of animal sense and primitive witchcraft. The tragic quality of racial backwardness and superstition is developed with all possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead of as a theme. To cut a girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from...
...Europe, studies of more than 1,000 Finns, Lapps and Racial Crosses among these peoples have been carried on during the last year by Martin Luther '26, who is now elaborating his statistics and data in Cambridge...