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| EXCERPT: Pending such experimentation, the sterilizing of the essentially unfit who may be dependents seems likely to be carried forward by the humaner methods of sequestration and of custodial care through life. The permanent isolation of the essentially unfit has commended itself to men as different as Ruskin and General Booth, and already the movement to establish these philanthropic monasteries and nunneries for the feeble-minded is becoming the substitute for natural selection.... |
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| TITLE: |
American Charities |
| CREATOR: |
Amos G. Warner (author) |
| DATE: |
1908 |
| FORMAT: |
Book |
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| PUBLISHER: |
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York |
| SOURCE: |
Straight Ahead Pictures Collection |
| LOCATION: |
chap.1-4, 11-12; pp.3-148, 317-353 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Accident, African-American, Alcohol, Alexander Graham Bell, Almshouses, Asylums, Benevolence, Charity, Charles Darwin, Child Labor, Children, Cognitive Disability, Confinement, Crime, Deaf, Demographics, Disease, Dorothea Dix, Economics, Employment, England, Epilepsy, Eugenics, Family, Feeblemindedness, France, Government, Heredity, Hospitals, Idiocy, Immigration, Insanity, Institutions, Jukes, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Marriage, Martin W. Barr, New York, New York City, Nomenclature, Philanthropy, Physical Disability, Poverty, Prostitution, Psychiatric Disability, Religion, Reproduction, Restraints, Richard L. Dugdale, Sensory Disability, Sexuality, Statistics, Sterilization, Urban Life, Venereal Disease, W.E. Fernald, Work |
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