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With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.


Charles Darwin


#darwinism #eugenics #natural-selection #planned-parenthood #population-control

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.


Kate Adie


#nothing #reporter #selection #stories

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.


Charles Foster Bass


#contained #hearings #house #i #intelligence

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.


James Dobson


#candidates #election #god #his #nation

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.


Julian Castro


#articulating #candidate #confident #election #four

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.


David Copperfield


#audience #best #comic #comic relief #constantly

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.


Ronny Cox


#anytime #call #days #even #i

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.


Terry Gross


#content #fact #faulty #getting #guests

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.


Stacy Keach


#did #hurt #objective #possible #probably

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.


Napoleon Hill


#begin #care #environment #extracted #feeding






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