It turns out that Darwin's son Major Leonard Darwin, who no doubt owed his rank to the influence of privilege rather than struggle, was President of the Eugenics Society from 1911 to 1929. He initiated the campaign for the Eugenic Sterilisation Bill.
Professor Julian Huxley, another favoured son, and a committee member, wrote-
Quote:The principle of supplementing the segregation of defectives by sterilisation in certain cases, is to my mind very important, and indeed essential, if we are to prevent the gradual deterioration of our racial stock. By making sterilisation voluntary in all cases, the Bill prevents any high handed abuse of power by local or other authorities, and the rights of individuals and their relatives appear to be abundantly safeguarded.
What utter tosh.
Dr F. Douglas Turner wrote-
Quote: I venture to say I would not be fitted to hold my present position of medical superintendent of an institution for the care of mental defectives if I could not induce every one of my patients to be operated on or to refuse an operation just as I myself might wish.
So much for the "voluntary" sophistry.
And further--by the eugenicist's own arguments the relatives would themselves be mentally defective too.
And it goes without saying that Major Leonard would owe his superior understanding of things to his hereditary advantages.
These are the sort of people who are trying to force Darwinism into the classrooms on the spurious notion that an education in biology for the masses, not the specialists, is essential for an understanding of its elementary aspects and who are equally determined to eradicate the notions of faith, hope and charity, all three virtues being contrary to evolutionary principles, and the source book of Western literature.
How many occupational positions in the US economy are affected by knowing the age of the earth? Believing it to be "young" might even make ordinary folks a lot happier than them contemplating billions of pointless years of it.
AIDs-ers are wedging for personal reasons.
Is this not sufficient for kids-
Cells, digestion, diet, sanitation, plants, animals, micro-organisms, fungi, viruses, respiration, ecology, muscles, bones, reproduction, germination, skin, DNA?
How does Darwinism produce better citizens in the ordinary case? Why can't it wait for those few showing an aptitude for such things? After all. it's simple enough to grasp in five minutes.