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"Since the publication of my work on Hereditary Genius in 1869, I have written numerous memoirs, which are scattered in various publications. They may have appeared desultory when read in the order in which they appeared, but as they had an underlying connection it seems worth while to bring their substance together in logical sequence into a single volume. I have revised, condensed, largely re-written, transposed old matter, and interpolated much that is new; but traces of the fragmentary origin of the work still remain. My general object has been to take note of the varied hereditary faculties of different men, and of the great differences in different families and races, to learn how far history may have shown the practicability of supplanting inefficient human stock by better strains, and to consider whether it might not be our duty to do so by such efforts as may be reasonable, thus exerting ourselves to further the ends of evolution more rapidly and with less distress than if events were left to their own course. The subject is, however, so entangled with collateral considerations that a straightforward step-by-step inquiry did not seem to be the most suitable course. I thought it safer to proceed like the surveyor of a new country, and endeavour to fix in the first instance as truly as I could the position of several cardinal points. The general outline of the results to which I finally arrived became more coherent and clear as this process went on"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

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Objet de fantasmes et de répulsion, l'eugénisme est associé aussi bien à des projets techno-scientifiques qu'à des idéologies ou des doctrines (darwinisme social, racisme), des utopies futuristes, des mesures relatives à la procréation ou encore à des politiques démographiques.A minima, il est possible de le définir comme la volonté de modifier le patrimoine génétique de l'humanité en vue de son amélioration. Mais adhérer à une telle perspective, n'est-ce pas présupposer l'existence d'une inégalité génétiquement déterminée entre humains ou vouloir créer des élites héréditaires ? Jusqu'où conduit cette entreprise, dont les objectifs oscillent entre normalisation et fabrication du surhumain ?Pierre-André Taguieff décrypte un projet qui connaît un regain d'intérêt avec le transhumanisme et les techniques de procréation médicalement assistées, et qui en dit long sur la propension des hommes à se révolter contre la nature ou à se prendre pour des dieux.

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When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics--the attempted ""improvement"" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls--that consciously drew on the U.S. example. By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for ""defectives,"" upheld by the Supreme Court in 19

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