These are instances of what could be called “proto-eugenics.” The modern eugenics movement, in contrast, originated in the post-Darwinian work of Francis Galton (1869), who defended the “hereditarian” thesis that “a man’s natural abilities …It is noteworthy that negative eugenics was embraced by not just German fascists but progressives and liberals elsewhere in Europe and North America [16]. As Bashford and Levine (2010) observe, “the optimism of eugenics, and its aspiration …Eschatology. The TESCREAL bundle shares certain “eschatological” (relating to “last things”) convictions. As with religions like Christianity, these take two forms: utopian and apocalyptic, which are inextricably bound up together. For exam…
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