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eugenics The Great Depression and the war over children's intelligence.

The controversy in the early part of the 20th century has to do with our children, our children born with the intelligence they'll have their whole lives and

is it important that who their parents are if their parents are socially unacceptable

does that mean they have low intelligence? What does it mean for

childbearing? We go now to a school called eugenics. Eugenists are present at the presentation by Harold Skeels and the presentation by George Stoddard.

Eugenics begins, however, in the 19th century a man named Francis Galton.

Marilyn, who is Francis Galton and what did he intend by inventing the science or the observation

or the cult of eugenics?

Francis Galton is a cousin of Charles Darwin's.

And he listened to Darwin's ideas about how evolution changes the species.

And he extrapolated from Darwin's information

an idea that children inherit from their parents as single traits things like pauperism, sense of humor,

criminality, promiscuity, and so on and golden put these ideas out into the English intellectual atmosphere and they were very much believed.

He thought that it would be possible to create a society of the able if you kept people with those poor

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