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Eugenics concerns the scientific knowledge of the laws of sex, life and heredity.
In the Name of Eugenics Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity:
At the end of the 20th century, biotechnological techniques and other agendas are making forms of human eugenics plausible. Rich in anecdote, narrative, and fact. An important book.
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All life is a season of character-growing. We are left in this world, not so much for what we may do here, for the things we may make, as that we ourselves may grow into the beauty of God's thought for us. In the midst of all our occupations and struggles, all our doing of tasks, all our longings and desires, all our experiences of every kind, there is a work going on in us which is quite as important as anything we are doing with our mind or with our hands.
In the school the boy has his tasks and lessons. According as he is diligent or indolent is his progress in his studies. Ii? ten years, if he is faithful, he masters many things and stands high in his class. Or, if he is indifferent and careless, he gets only a smattering of knowledge, with so many links missing that his education is of little practical use to him. But meanwhile there has been going on in him another education—a growth or development of character. The mind grows by exercise, just as the body does. Each lesson learned adds its new fact to the measure of knowledge; but there is, besides, an effect produced upon the mind itself by the effort to learn. It grows by exercise, tfetter far, form than reform character.
Quit singing, "Oh, to be nothing," and try to be something, somebody.
A man who is undergirded by the arms of the Almighty can not be crushed.
This is part of "Eugenics And The Beginning Of Life According To The Laws Of Sex, Life, And Heredity" See also:
by Angelique Richardson
Love and Eugenics among the Late Victorians is a fascinating, lucid, and controversial study of the centrality of eugenic debate to the Victorians. Reappraising the operation of social and sexual power in Victorian society and fiction, it makes a radical contribution to English studies, nineteenth-century and gender studies, and the history of science.
Our Posthuman Future Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama (Author)
A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of “the end of history,” Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man’s changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity’s utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person’s descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions. In Our Posthuman Future, one of our greatest social philosophers begins to describe the potential effects of genetic exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature.
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