Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-09 | Page 17 | Big-Headed Race of Pigmies Peril Seen in Eugenics

HEADED BIG RACE oi OF PIGMIES PERil SEEN IN EUGENICS Brown University Professor I Says Science Is Modern Form of New ew York Feb 8 Speaking Speaking to an audience ot or about DOO Oo 00 people at tho the meeting house houlle of the Ethical l Culture society t at 2 W. W fourth Sixty street last night Professor E. E F. F Ward Vard of Brown university declared positively that so society so- so has lias the same SArno right to weed eed out tho among Its members that thal a farmer has s to destroy destro the weeds In his hla cornfield lie mado made this statement nt In Inthe Inthe Inthe the course couse of or a l lecture In which he ho as assailed th the doctrines of or eugenics eug and the science Itself tHeIr with much vl vigor or The professor proCessor explained that eug eugenics Is iN only the modern name of ture the name first coined for the science b by Professor Gallon Galton back In the theS S sC CV C 0 tIe There are two kinds of or said the professor the positive e and the negative The first looks to the Improvement of or the race by the elimination elimination nation of defectives detectives There can be no doubt tha thai society has hns control over O detectives defectives Th They are the the- wards of or society and society therefore therefore there there- fore tore has as aM much control over o them as asman ASman man moan has over the vegetable kingdom There Is no reason JR on wh why they should not be strictly weeded out and only Ignorance Ignorance ignorance Igno Igno- rance and antI a mistaken sentiment prents prevents pre pre- vents this being done A A. public sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment should be bo created for the stamping stamp amp ing out of or time the defective detective members of r the therace race The positive desire to improve im Im- mi- mi prove pro the race b by careful selection of those called upon to p perpetuate it This Is undoubtedly an ai attractive conception but the control of or heredity Is possible anI only to a n master creature Man Ian Is 18 such sucha a a. master muter creature creatore to tho lower lo animals but there thero IH It no such master over OYer men Intelligent nt normal human beings are their th lr own ma masters A law attempting to regulate tho the mating of oC human beings 8 would be he a worse tyranny than all the sumptuary laws 8 of ot the middle ages t e ever r dreamed d of The eu If It the they succeeded ded in their plans would produce a race raco of or hydrocephalous pigmies The They think tho they know better than nature but th the they y emphasize on only time the Intellectual traits The They would Increase th the size lIlze of the head hend at tho the expense of the rest of ot the bod body Like breeders of ot cattle th the they y would breed for tor or points and the thc head In Is the only organ the they cnn can see flee To read eugenic eu eu- genie literature you u would think nearly everyone c was defective e when the ac actual actual ac- ac fual proportion Is only one half of or one oue I ae-I p per r cent The Time brain of primitive man was as so large and ancl so 0 hl highly hh developed said uld th the professor proCessor that it led him Into all sorts sort 0 of of- errors that o ha handicapped the race race- ever er since His Ills head hend was too lar large e and it had to be reduced Frog ProK- rE ress remus Is du due not to the reason but to scientific Investigation In Th The race needs more morp knowledge not more brains The best hest way to improve f th the species is to thin It out and the tho social environment environ tn ment does not differ greatly from the tho organic In this respect ct The 1110 lower classes are not Inferior to th the upper Suicide Insanity crime and vice nil all In Increase increase In- In crease as we rl rise e In tho the scale of intel Intel- l- l JI ence And the thc millions of or the lower classes p the tho pr proletariat lc the slum dwell dwell- erg era If It you OU will are at least st th the equals in Intelligence o of oC most moat teachers of or tu- tu u S