... other social Darwinists such as William Graham Sumner. William Sumner was an Episcopalian minister and political economist. He was not trained in the sciences at all but as Bannister points out, seemed to have a soft spot in his heart for science. Sumner even said that he regretted that he "had no education in natural science, especially in biology." ... enthusiasm though. There were different types of eugenics, "bad eugenics" and "good eugenics." Bad eugenics sought to prevent reproduction by the people with "bad genes", such as the poor and the "feeble minded", good eugenics sought to...

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... of wedlock. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Homes declared that "three generations of imbeciles are enough" during the Buck v. Bell case, which upheld the Virginia court ruling (The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement). Carrie's sterilization sentence was carried out. It was later determined that Carrie Buck was not mentally ill and her pregnancy was a result of rape. Her child Vivian was normal as ... acknowledged that Fred Aslin has always been of sound mind and body. He served his country during the Korean War, fighting for the ideals of a country that had taken away ...

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