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CALLED OF RACESTEPHEN S. WISE TALES OP MUCH DISCUSSED THEORY OF RACE CULTURE.ELEVATES PROGENYfiebievv Advocate Believes in theChilli’s Right to Be ,, Well Born.New York, N. Y. — Eugenics la a r word, better known perhaps in Great . Britain, where Sir Francis Gallon, i the distinguished relative of Darwin, continues in his old age to preach the j doctrine that he founded, than it is , ; in this country.But eugenics, call it a theory, doc-I trine or religion, has one enthusiastic -devotee on this side of the water in Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who spoke to his congregation of the Free Synagogue on the subject of race culture lt;in Carnegie hall. lt;“Eugenics aims to emphasize par- j ental responsibility and to bring about the quickening and guidance if not control of such sense of responsibility by the state,’’ he told his audience. *“The science of eugenics has suffered because of confusion of terms race 1 suicide and race culture. Between ace culture and race suicide there is lt;a difference between a race earnestly (oeut upon bettering and perpetuating itself and a race not only too indolent to concern itself with a remote posterity nut even too basely cell-indulgent to be ready to bear the burcier of parenthood.Eugenics demands the birth ol 1children well bom, normally born; (that is, born to heredity and environ- lt;ment that are likely to promise a nor- ( mal and wholesome life. Nothing is as important and inclusive as the flghi i the child to be well born; nothing an wholly repair the wrong done to £ hild that is ill born.“No question can be more truly re- ' rightly answered, means the bringing ( to pass of the birth of a generation ( that shall be better fitted to live and j that shall not only find life worth liv- ( ing but be enabled to live worthily. For centuries the second commandment has been viewed as symptomatic of the vindictiveness of the God ol Israel, and now we find that it is nothing more than the utterance of a • scientific truth. The sins of the fath- ’ ers are visited upon the children un- C to the third and fourth generation. g ’It is eugenics that would averl j race suicide, that would make it ini- j possible by virtue of its concern with , he problem that the largest number 1 f the right kind of children be born tnd not any number of any kind oi ihildren. ft is an attempt to restore .he dignity of motherhood. IWe must go back to the apotheosis I f motherhood of every mother wilt i shares in the divinely ordered pro j .•esses which give life to man and f nan to life.It may prove to be the function f eugenics to remold our education-il ideals, but as Havelock Ellis has .aid, it matters comparatively little what sort of education we give our I •hildren; the primary matter is whal ( sort of children we have to educate j We have no greater need to rec- (• rgnize that education must include r preparation for the supreme duty oi jarenthood. Eugenic science insists tpon a thorough education for our couth touching sex hygiene and sex Jkysiology, and if we can’t get lady seacherc tor this we will get women eachers.
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Richmond Morning News
Richmond, Indiana, US
Sun, Jan 15, 1911
Page 6
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