Google eugenics and you will find yourself buried under a mountain of different definitions. Some are fairly objective, but the vast majority disparage, even demonize, the idea. A few examples: “The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after… Read more

My grandson Jerome, who graduates from the University of Rochester in May, has become interested in Colonial history. He sent me an Email a couple days ago with the following: Recently I’ve found myself interested in the lives of the early New England colonists, so during some down time I was reading through some historical files, and I found that a distant ancestor of ours was notoriously at odds with the Puritan Church of the Massachusetts colony, and was fined… Read more