Sentences with phrase «eugenicists believed»

Eugenicists believed that the human race must begin to take control not just of human reproduction, but of ethnic intermingling.

The Cold Spring eugenicists believed that the unfit had to be prevented from passing on their defective genes for blindness, criminality, insanity, and — of course — stupidity.

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Some of the staunchest supporters of the act were eugenicists, who believed that the fecundity of poor people was reducing the overall health and intelligence of the nation.

But Fisher himself was a eugenicist who believed that upper - class people, because they are upper class, have a genetic predisposition to superior intelligence and «qualities of the moral character.»