CHARLES DAVENPORT

(Charles Benedict Davenport)


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Charles Davenport

The general program of the eugenicist is clear—it is to improve the race by inducing young people to make a more reasonable selection of marriage mates; to fall in love intelligently. It also includes the control by the state of the propagation of the mentally incompetent. It does not imply the destruction of the unfit either before or after birth.
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Charles Davenport

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
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See Plato and Carrie Chapman Catt {394756} for similar views.

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Degenerates, he warned, must not be permitted to reproduce their kind.
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There was a substantial movement to prevent mentally defective and people of low intelligence from being able to reproduce. Over 20 states, with the approval of the then Supreme Court performed forced state sterilizations. Of course the then definition of “degenerates” changed from state to state. A century later, American values changed so much that there is no state that would even consider involuntary sterilization and if they did, the Courts would hold it un-Constitutional.

Charles Davenport

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
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Charles Davenport

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
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Charles Davenport
  • Born: June 1, 1866
  • Died: February 18, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist
Biography

Charles Benedict Davenport was a prominent biologist and eugenicist. He was influential in the American eugenics movement.

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