Of Horses and Computers.
To listen to an adult speak of humanity like this with a straight face reminds me of how Horse Breading became Eugenics and later the Final Solution.
But I'm one of those who isn't sure of which end of history we are at.
"What Eugenics Means
This is the same quality of calculation used by primitive man in controlling the future but based on a larger scientific experience. And it is along this line that eugenics makes its proposal. Eugenics means primarily good reproduction, and to the degree that it is possible to carry it out, it will eliminate the congenital criminal, the insane the idiotic, the dipsomaniac, those tainted with hereditary disease, the violent, and, it is to be hoped, the Philistine. It would also encourage reproduction in stocks which have shown themselves of a high degree of "civic worth." And it would so surround life after it is produced that it cannot become bad. In this latter point eugenism becomes associated in its aims with politics and education."
William Isaac Thomas. "Eugenics: The Science of Breeding Men", American Magazine, 68 (June 1909) http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Thomas/Thomas_1909_a.html
"What Eugenics Means
This is the same quality of calculation used by primitive man in controlling the future but based on a larger scientific experience. And it is along this line that eugenics makes its proposal. Eugenics means primarily good reproduction, and to the degree that it is possible to carry it out, it will eliminate the congenital criminal, the insane the idiotic, the dipsomaniac, those tainted with hereditary disease, the violent, and, it is to be hoped, the Philistine. It would also encourage reproduction in stocks which have shown themselves of a high degree of "civic worth." And it would so surround life after it is produced that it cannot become bad. In this latter point eugenism becomes associated in its aims with politics and education." William Isaac Thomas. "Eugenics: The Science of Breeding Men", American Magazine, 68 (June 1909) http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Thomas/Thomas_1909_a.html