Hunting Down Social Darwinism Will This Canard Go Extinct

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FOUR The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents TheAcademicLeft’s Canonizationof LesterWardand RichardT. Ely Therei ...

82 Chapter 4 ArthurA. EkirchhailsWardas a “staunchcriticof competitionandlaissezfaire.. .” Moreover,Wardwas a crusaderfor “socia ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 83 Deglerthenproceeds,“Invidiouscomparisonsamongsocialgroups,for example ...

84 Chapter 4 you.No oneis moreanxiousto throttlethe moneypower.”^21 WilliamJameshimself advocatedgovernistideas.His father,Henry ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 85 Someof Ward’s opinionsabouteugenicschangedovertime.But on intothe las ...

86 Chapter 4 StillmorethrilledthanHofstadterandEkirchaboutthis is HenrySteeleCommager. Commageris elatedthatWardassessedthatther ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 87 the samecharge—socialDarwinism—directednot onlyagainstlaissezfaire,bu ...

88 Chapter 4 ‘block-universe’ of Spencer,” Hofstadterproclaims,“the Spencerianvirusremainedin his blood.”SDATmaintainsthatit was ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 89 not believethat any manlivesfor himselfalone.... All havedutiesas wel ...

90 Chapter 4 Ross,” and “JohnR. Commons” for “increasingthe standardof livingfor a largermiddle class.” They“all thoughtandworke ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 91 ignorantbringsuponsociety.”^91 In otherwords,PattenandEly considerita ...

92 Chapter 4 and the ‘unfit’ withthe lowerthat had beencharacteristicof the oldersocialDarwinism.” Theserich peoplehappento be H ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 93 that eugenicists“on the ‘right’” likewiseemployedthe socialDarwinisml ...

94 Chapter 4 fortunateclassesof societywerereadilytranslatableintodemandsthatthe American peopleshouldshoulderthe whiteman’s bur ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 95 Leetethenaddsthatpeoplein his timesare healthierandmoresexuallyattrac ...

96 Chapter 4 haveto standon the defensive,becauseeachwillbe solicitousfor the rightsof the other.... Thereis nothingUtopianin th ...

The Camouflagingof Eugenicistsas Eugenicism’s Opponents 97 havesteadfastlyresisted” the lessonsthatcan be drawnfromsociobiology. ...

98 Chapter 4 eugenicsmovementthroughouthis life. In his nonfictionBraveNewWorldRevisited, Al- doussoundedthe alarmaboutthe oppos ...