Hunting Down Social Darwinism Will This Canard Go Extinct

The Conflationof LaissezFairewithRegulation-ImposedEugenics 39 wereaidingthe eugenicambitionsof CharlesBenedictDavenport.The con ...

40 Chapter 2 Westerncolonialism(Spencerand Sumneragainst,eugenicistsfor). Compulsorysterilization(Spencerand Sumneragainst,euge ...

The Conflationof LaissezFairewithRegulation-ImposedEugenics 41 Nowwe moveon to the commonavowalthateverybrandof socialDarwinism— ...

42 Chapter 2 pedimentto authenticsocialprogress,when,throughthe force of violence,the State “abstractsfromsomemenpartof the adva ...

The Conflationof LaissezFairewithRegulation-ImposedEugenics 43 casesin whichmen... havedivergedintothe by-waysof injustice.. .” ...

44 Chapter 2 Spencer,consideredemancipationthe centrallogic” of a free society.Anddrawingfrom Spencer,Schurzlikewiseconcludedtha ...

The Conflationof LaissezFairewithRegulation-ImposedEugenics 45 eugenicistswereexplicitmembersof the Progressivemovement.Hofstadt ...

46 Chapter 2 the forefrontof government-mandatedeugenics.ThemyopialikewisehelpsHofstadter evadethisconclusion:if eugenicistscoun ...

The Conflationof LaissezFairewithRegulation-ImposedEugenics 47 Ekirch1974,unflatteringlydescribesSpencerand Sumnerin chapter2 o ...

48 Chapter 2 Dewar2004,26. ThatJohnD. RockefellerII financedDavenportis furtherconfirmedin L. Thomp- son 1994,60. Spiro2009. J. ...

The Conflationof LaissezFairewithRegulation-ImposedEugenics 49 107.J. Greenberg1990,85. 108.R. Lacey1986,223. 109.Qtd.by R. Lace ...

50 Chapter 2 152.Bannister1988,77. Schurzwasnot a consistentsupporterof laissezfaire,however.He supported the notionthat the fed ...

THREE The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals TheConsequencesof Hofstadter’s Equivocation As an outgrowthof the misconceptionsa ...

52 Chapter 3 Thatdeprivingour rulersof the powerto makewar,wouldbe one of the most effectualmeanswithinour reach,of hasteningth ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 53 will not rest untilyou possessalsothe otherWestIndiesIslands;and whatthen?... The gr ...

54 Chapter 3 Sumner’s staunchanti-imperialismis the same“Spencerianthought” thatAsimov accusesof rationalizingwar and conquest.S ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 55 cludingthe HarvardevolutionarybiologistStephenJay Gould(1941–2002),reactedindig- nan ...

56 Chapter 3 mentthatthe financialtransactionsof Rockefellerwereon par withthe tyrannyand genocideperpetratedby Nazis. As Robert ...

The EquivocationInfectsthe Intellectuals 57 winismandMalthusianismbeforeit, eugenicsfoundits warmestreceptionamongBrit- ain’slai ...

58 Chapter 3 Similarly,left-winggovernistsof Dawkins’s mindrelishtheirabilities(1) to link social Darwinismwithfree-marketerslik ...