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  1. Ekirch1974,unflatteringlydescribesSpencerand Sumnerin chapter2 on pages22–24, and,in the
    chapter2 notessectionon page279, citesSDAT, callingit “the bestaccountof its subject”

  2. R. Wright1994,hardcover,330.

  3. The demonizingappearsin R. Wright2000,266, whileHofstadteris citedinibid., 392.

  4. Schweikartand Allen2004,446.Unfortunately,anotherhugedrawbackof this bookis its disgust-
    inglymealy-mouthedambivalenceon the subjectof FranklinRoosevelt’s forcibleinternmentof Japanese-
    Americansfor racialreasonsduringthe SecondWorldWar.Schweikartand Allenfail to admitthat FDR’s
    actionwas unequivocallyworthyof condemnation.

  5. Bannister1988,129.An examplehe givesof an intellectualattackingeugenicsas “socialDarwin-
    ism” is IanknvAleksandrovichNovikov,whowouldlatergo by the nameJacquesNovicowin France
    (1849–1912).

  6. Thattermis usedfor government-imposedeugenicsin Fichman2002,113;J. M. Hobson2004,236;
    and G. Robinson2001,9.

  7. Barkan1992,71; Kevles1985,72, 96; G. Robinson2001,16-17,30; andSpiro2009.M. Ridley1999,
    290, writes,“The ImmigrationRestrictionAct of 1924was a directresultof eugeniccampaigning.”

  8. Kevles1985,101; and M. Ridley1999,290.

  9. KarlPearsonis identifiedas one of the leadersof the government-imposedeugenicsmovementin
    AllanChase1980,paperback,14; and G. L. Mosse1964,98.

  10. Barkan1992,151;AllanChase1980,paperback,9; Kevles1985,23; andG. L. Mosse 1985 trade
    paperback,79.

  11. G. L. Mosse1985,tradepaperback,79.

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  14. G. L. Mosse1964,98.

  15. Bannister1988,168; and T. C. Leonard2003,accessedonlineMonday,February13, 2012.Fukuyama
    2002,27, and M. Ridley1999,288, inaccuratelystatethat Galtoncoinedeugenicsin 1885.

  16. FrancisGalton,qtd. by A. Tone2001,140.

  17. Galton1908,323, qtd. by T. C. Leonard2003,690–91, accessedonlineMonday,February13, 2012.

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  19. FrancisGalton,qtd. by T. C. Leonard2003,690, accessedonlineMonday,February13, 2012.

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  24. EdwardPearce,“NietzscheIs RadicallyUnsound,”The Guardian, July8, 1992,page20, qtd.by J.
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  25. Eric Fonerin his introductionto the 1992editionofSDAT, in Hofstadter1992,x-xi.

  26. Hofstadter,qtd.by EricFonerin his introductionto the 1992editionofSDAT, in Hofstadter1992,
    x–xi.

  27. Hofstadter1992,xxix.T. C. Leonard2009,38, accessedonlineSunday,November6, 2011,statesthat
    SDAT’s biaswas,as Hofstadter“lateradmitted,refractedthrougha NewDeal[il]liberal’s conceptionof
    reform”

  28. T. C. Leonard2009,38, accessedonlineSunday,November6, 2011.

  29. R. Perlstein2001,452, quotingRichardHofstadter,“A LongView:Goldwaterin History,”NewYork
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  30. D.W.B.1946,124.

  31. HerbertSpencer,letter,to KentaroKaneko,August26, 1892,in “HerbertSpencer:ThreeLettersto
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    LKK.htm,accessedFriday,April20, 2007.

  32. Also,Spencer’s laissez-faireviewdid not extendbeyondpeacetime.He believedthatif England
    wereinvadedby a hostilepower,the U.K.governmentwouldbe justifiedin imposingcontrolson
    everydaylife. For that,see Spencer 1978 vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 10, sec. 293,para.2, vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 12, sec. 302,
    para.3; vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 15, sec. 316, para.2; vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 17, sec. 310, para.2, accessedTuesday,January
    22, 2013;in respectivelySpencer 1978 vol. 2, 79, 102, 131, 139.

  33. Kevles1985,7.

  34. Lombardo2008,84, 32, 159.

  35. Kevles1985,72.

  36. Spiro2009,182.

  37. ThatDavenportwroteto Galtonandevenspoketo himin personon occasionsis notedin Black
    2003,34–35.

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