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Richard · 08-17-2010, 10:28

One should beware of using an 'upper-crust' politician like Teddy Roosevelt - a friend and endorser of Madison Grant's 'scientific racism' (whose book, The Passing of the Great Race, argued for a strong eugenics program in order to save the waning "Nordic race" from inundation by other racial types and suggested the state had a moral obligation to put certain immigrant types to death) - when arguing the idea of 'Americanism.'

Grant's book was praised by his friend, former president Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote: "The book is a capital book: in purpose, in vision, in grasp of the facts that our people must need to realize.... It is the work of an American scholar and gentleman, and all Americans should be grateful to you for writing it." Much depends, obviously, on how one interprets words like "elimination" and "worthless race types". The Passing of the Great Race was translated into German in 1925, and Grant received a fan letter from aspiring politician Adolf Hitler as well: "The book is my Bible," wrote Hitler to Grant.

http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/eugenics/eugenics.html

Richard

08-17-2010, 10:28	#7
Richard Quiet Professional Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NorCal Posts: 15,370	One should beware of using an 'upper-crust' politician like Teddy Roosevelt - a friend and endorser of Madison Grant's 'scientific racism' (whose book, The Passing of the Great Race, argued for a strong eugenics program in order to save the waning "Nordic race" from inundation by other racial types and suggested the state had a moral obligation to put certain immigrant types to death) - when arguing the idea of 'Americanism.' Grant's book was praised by his friend, former president Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote: "The book is a capital book: in purpose, in vision, in grasp of the facts that our people must need to realize.... It is the work of an American scholar and gentleman, and all Americans should be grateful to you for writing it." Much depends, obviously, on how one interprets words like "elimination" and "worthless race types". The Passing of the Great Race was translated into German in 1925, and Grant received a fan letter from aspiring politician Adolf Hitler as well: "The book is my Bible," wrote Hitler to Grant. http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/eugenics/eugenics.html Richard __________________ “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch) “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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