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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JUPITERASC" data-source="post: 1171561" data-attributes="member: 6273">In Mundane Astrology   EIGHTH HOUSEPublic mortality  and the kinds of people who dieLucien Howe September 18, 1848 – December 27, 1928was an American physician who spent much of his career as a professor of ophthalmology at the University at Buffalo. In 1876 he was instrumental in the creation of the Buffalo Eye and Ear Infirmary.Howe was also a major figure in support of the controversial science of eugenics. He believed that eugenics could be a tool in the fight against preventable blindnessspecifically the small percentage of cases that were inherited. He theorized that by sterilizing the blind, inherited blindness could eventually be eradicated.Howe was a member of the International Eugenic Congress's Committee on Immigration and president of the Eugenics Research Association. The eugenics movement sought to prevent the birth of "...defectives..." through regulation of marriage, involuntary sterilizationor segregation of potential parents deemed genetically inadequate. Howe supported and helped draft proposed legislation to prevent procreation by people with poor vision and by people whose relatives had poor vision. He even advocated imprisonment of blind people to keep them from reproducing. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Howe conducted surveys of homes for the blind nationwide to gather family histories and identify people whose blindness was believed to be hereditary. Howe headed a committee of the American Medical Associationwhich collaborated with the Eugenics Record Office to register family "...pedigrees..." of blind people. Leaders of the eugenics movement such as Harry Hamilton Laughlin regarded Howe's eugenics campaign against blindness as an opening wedge for a far more ambitious eugenics agenda, paving the way for broader measures against the birth of other babies with inherited "...defects..." Howe and his eugenicist colleagues sought to craft legislation that would pass constitutional muster. They believed that blindness, as a hygienic trait, would be an easier target for eugenics legislation than such "...defective..." traits as "...feeblemindedness..." or a family history of poverty. Howe's own eugenics activism targeted more than blindness. He also proposed requiring a large cash bond from any marriage license applicant suspected of being "...unfit..."<h3>Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></h3><h3> War Against the Weak (2003)</h3>[MEDIA=youtube]dfPTaBlheGA[/MEDIA]Harry Hamilton Laughlin March 11, 1880 – January 26, 1943 was an American educator and eugenicist. He served as the Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939and was among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policyespecially compulsory sterilization legislationRobert Mearns Yerkes May 26, 1876 – February 3, 1956 was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology.  His works are largely considered biased toward outmoded racialist theories by modern academics.</blockquote>

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