Alan Judd

it’s easy to forget how many respectable people embraced eugenics

Before the rise of Nazism, many intellectuals argued that, by applying genetic knowledge to social engineering, mankind’s lot could be immeasurably improved

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  • Imagined Futures: Writing, Science And Modernity In the Today and Tomorrow Book Series, 1923–31

    Max Saunders

    OUP, pp. 448, £60

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