Eugenics and Natural Selection in Modern Society
Albert S and Gray argues that environment shapes 90 percent of individual development and criticizes state backed eugenics. He urges economic independence for women, education in physics chemistry and biology, and voluntary self improvement to elevate humanity rather than legislate breeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Ward
Thales
Anaximander
Hippocrates
Euclid
Caligula
Heredity and Environment Shape Human Vitality
A discussion of heredity and hygiene from United States Senate document 419 cites Fisher and Metchnikoff on environment and inheritance. It argues life results from three factors including soil or environment and notes ten essential soil elements and the limits of food values.
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Irving Fisher
United States Senate
Metchnikoff
Court of Appeal
Mendel
Night Aeroplane Scouting Aims For Night Flight Data
Brigadier General Stone notes in the Royal Artillery journal that night aeroplane scouting, though not feasible before 1915, could yield valuable military data. He recalls 1913 prize flights were daylight only, Germany relaxed limits last year boosting night flying and accidents. The coming year should provide night flight competitions aiding standardization. Night scouting allows close-ground observation without detection.
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Stone
Professional Journal of
the Royal Artillery
Germany
Dainty Dish and the China Missionary Dinner
A young missionary in China hosts a dinner and clashes over fruit with a servant. Frustration grows until the servant returns with a platter bearing her husband’s everyday trousers, presented with silent contempt.
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China
Waters Report From Springs Cites Curious Mud Mixture
Gadsby sends spring water sample to his physician for analysis. The report lists mud thirty three percent crawfish forty seven percent tadpoles ten percent leaves five percent scam three percent soam one percent medicinal properties four percent.
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Gadsby
Marcus Aurelius on silent good deeds and shared virtue
A medieval tale-like aphorism notes a man does not boast after performing a good deed and instead passes on the example to others, like a vine bearing grapes again in season, echoing Stoic ideals of virtue and communal growth.
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Marcus Aurelius
Much Good in Salad
Housewife Proficient in salad making shares recipes and tips for enhancing family meals. The piece extols virtue of harmonious, seasonal greens and olive oil, then describes Dutch French and Spanish salads with stepwise ingredient lists and dressing notes.
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Lida Ames Willis
France
Italy
Spain
Meat Pie From Lin Pork And Sausage Links
Select a couple of pounds of pork, one pound sausage links, rinse, boil gently in salted cold water. Add eight to ten potatoes peeled and halved, stew until tender. Thicken with flour butter and meat broth paste. Line dish with crust, fill with stew, cover with a butter crust venting steam. Bake quickly until crust browns and flakes.
Eggless Chocolate Cake Mixing and Baking Steps
Cream sugar butter salt and chocolate with milk to smoothness. Add pastry flour baking powder and vanilla. Butter the pan well and bake the cake until done using a straw test.
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Albert S&s. Gray, M. D
A.S. Gray
Eugenics