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[[Image:Gtr766.png|right|thumb|300px|Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921.]]

[[Image:Gtr766.png|right|thumb|300px|Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921.]]

'''Eugenics''' (from the Greek. eugenes "well-born, of good stock," from eu- "good" + genos "birth") is the general name for a series of ostensibly [[Science|scientific]] claims about inheritance among humans, which sought to eliminate traits, such as "imbecility" or criminal behavior, by selective [[Eugenics and sterilization|sterilization]], regulation of family size, and restrictions on who could marry whom.  It was based upon a number of premises since shown to be demonstrably false (not all eugenecists held to all of these uniformly):

'''Eugenics''' (from the Greek. eugenes "well-born, of good stock," from eu- "good" + genos "birth") is the general name for a series of ostensibly [[Science|scientific]] claims about inheritance among humans, which sought to eliminate traits, such as "imbecility" or criminal behavior, by selective [[Eugenics and sterilization|sterilization]], regulation of family size, [[abortion]] and restrictions on who could marry whom.  It was based upon a number of premises since shown to be demonstrably false:

* That "imbecility" -- a catch-all phrase used to label many persons without anything that today would be recognized as mental illness or deficiency -- was necessarily the result of inheritance, and heritable.

* That "imbecility" -- a catch-all phrase used to label many persons without anything that today would be recognized as mental illness or deficiency -- was necessarily the result of inheritance, and heritable.

* [[Herbert David Croly‎‎]]

* [[Herbert David Croly‎‎]]

* [[Liberalism]]

* [[Liberalism]]

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