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Article: Eugenics and Utopia: sexual selection from Galton to Morris. (Francis Galton, William Morris)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 1997
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SINCE THE NAZI HOLOCAUST, eugenics has been stigmatized as one of the most pernicious and repugnant aspects of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century scientific thought. Today it is commonly assumed that naive enthusiasts such as the Fabian socialists and Hampstead intellectuals who attended the meetings of the Eugenics Education Society in Edwardian London helped to prepare the way for Hitler. The incorporation of mildly eugenic measures in socialist utopias such as Wells's A Modern Utopia (1905) has been seized on as proof of the existence of logical and historical links between socialist theory and Fascism (e.g. Watson [1967]). The intellectual Left, by and large, ...
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