![]() ![]() Each child reverts to the same life, reverts when taken out.” In his 1881 article entitled “The Tribe of Ishmael: A Study in Social Degradation,” the influential Indiana preacher Oscar McCulloch wrote, “ote the force of heredity. Under this law, women were sterilized for being deemed “feebleminded” or “promiscuous.” By the late 1800s, state officials were increasingly convinced that the social problems of crime and poverty were genetically inherited. Indiana’s law mandated sterilization of those in state institutions who were deemed “idiots” or “imbeciles,” as well as certain classes of criminals. state to pass a compulsory sterilization law. Indiana passes first sterilization law other states followĪfter previous efforts by Michigan and Pennsylvania failed, Indiana became the first U.S. Galton’s writings reflected prejudiced notions about race,Ĭlass, gender and the overwhelming power of heredity. That only “higher races” could be successful. That abstract social traits, such as intelligence, were a result of heredity. Galton believed that eugenics could control human evolution and development. The wordĮugenics would sufficiently express the idea. Influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood aīetter chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. Questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all ![]() We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to Galton first used the term in an 1883 book, “Inquiries into Human Fertility and Its Development.” “Inquiries into Human Fertility and Its Development.” Francis Galton (pictured), Charles Darwin’s cousin,ĭerived the term “eugenics” from the Greek word eugenes, meaning “good in birth” or “good in stock.” Galton defines eugenics and gives birth to a movementįrancis Galton (pictured), Charles Darwin’s cousin, derived the term “eugenics” from the Greek wordĮugenes, meaning “good in birth” or “good in stock.” Galton first used the term in an 1883 book,
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