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Eugenics (Search) 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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The wrong person pours the story of life in half truths and obscene language, into the willing ears of the child. The time is badly chosen. This, beautiful and sacred knowledge is given as an indecent secret and a great mystery. The boy compares the truth, viciously lodged in his mind, with the "stork" explanation offered by his parents, and discovering a falsehood, he loses confidence. From this time on he considers the origin of life as sinful and all references to the subject as vulgar.
As he grows older, he continues to get information of this nature from the ignorant and vicious elements of society. The chances are that he will be led into the secret vice before he is twelve. By that time he hears men and boys frequently boasting of their social sins with the opposite sex. He gets the idea that this is a manly achievement. Under this kind of training he does not, he can not feel himself a girl's protector; he does not, he can not appreciate the value of a girl's virtue; he does not, he can not comprehend the seriousness of a girl's fall and the disgrace brought upon her home. In his delusion he sees only a manly achievement. The moral ideas that come to a boy from such training are a conglomeration of misinformation and ignorance that result in depravity. Libertinism is the natural and logical sequence of such training.
In their early teens nearly all children are teased about sweethearts, and children from different families are encouraged to caress and kiss each other. This is a crime against childhood; a perversion of their social natures. This is the psychological age in which to train girls to enforce the rule "hands off;" and to teach boys to be courteous and gallant—that they are to protect and defend girls. If boys and girls are encouraged in the use of familiarities at this age, the chances are they will have no moral convictions about this custom when they are older. Boys and girls would rarely make these mistakes were it not for foolish older people.
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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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