
Hush-Hush Ends, May 08, 1939
In an upending of traditional eugenics, Harvard Professor Earnest Albert Hooton, citing "facial characteristics set the Jews apart," argues:
"The Jews . . . have been freed from the onus of their own inferior elements. We have divested them of their morons. , . . They have had to learn that a Jew who is to survive must do what he does supremely well, whether in the realms of commerce, politics, science or scholarship. . . . Their involuntarily eugenic regime has been partly responsible for the astounding frequency with which they produce men of genius. . . . * "
Professor Hooton recommends:
"If we could get all of the Jews in this country and Europe to outmarry, it would leaven the lump of Gentile stupidity. There is enough ability concentrated in the few millions of Jews to raise the general average considerably if it were disseminated by intermixture. ... I do not know that they would be willing to do it, but, if they did, they would confer a great genetic boon upon mankind, and at the same time would solve their own problems.
This seed planted in the article Edwin Black
Perhaps that Professor had a valid point. Interesting article, thanks for seeding it.
Perhaps, although he's probably dead by now, and to a great extent Prof. Hooten's vision has been realized.
I think this article is very telling in that it demonstrates that eugenics was not some aberrant result of the 3rd Reich, but the scientific idea of the day, throughout Europe and the United States. Although Nazi Germany brought this to horrible fruition, it is often the tendency of Western countries and people to forget that this was a worldwide movement and the primary justification for the colonial system.
Yes, even in those far-off days, eugenics was a much debated topic amongst the thinkers of the day. Even then, they knew that the world was vastly over-populated, and something had to change.
I often speculate how things might be now, if the Second World War had ended differently, or even if there hadn't have been a Second World War.
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