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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 Jews understood the Mosaic Law, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," to apply to the overt act only. Christ, who knew the will of the Father and the laws of life, interpreted the Mosaic Law to mean character as well as conduct, when he said, "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already, in his heart." This statement is not true simply because Christ said it. It is a scientific fact that lustful mental states injure the body, the nervous system, the mind and moral natures through the generation and dissipation of the sex life, as much and oftentimes more than would the overt act of adultery.
Christ here speaks of mental adultery. The man commits it in his own heart. So far as he is concerned, he is injured just as much as if he had committed the act with a woman. Mental adultery robs man of as much vital energy as does the overt act.
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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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