In short, eugenics is the applied science of Darwinism (social darwinisim).The Malthusian catastrophe where the lower class all die and the well-to-do survive, became the inspiration for eugenics. The modern eugenics movement started in the United states in the late 1800′s and continues under different names today. The original eugenics movement eventually was promoted in Germany, and Hitler was so inspired by the Americans he created his own genocide based on the laws of eugenics. This would have been the ultimate goal of the eugenicists, but they failed. The eugenics operations in the us changed their names. Today they are called ‘population control, or planned parenthood, or one child policy. and screening for unborn children has begun to determine their genetic standing. Billions of dollars are being poured into the population control agenda today. The old money of the Rockefeller blending with the new money of Gates, Buffet and others. 

From Darwin we have the evolution of eugenics and Social Darwinism. He was an admirer of the Malthusian model, where the poor and weak would die off in a mass food crises. A sort of survival of the fittest. Thomas Henry (T.H.) Huxley pushed Darwin’s theories into the mainstream. Darwin’s (half) cousin Francis Galton, is considered the “Father of Eugenics”. They believed in his theory so far as to conduct the 4 families experiment, in which they vowed to only breed with each other, in order to create a breed of supermen. Though within 2 generations close to 90% of their offspring either died at birth or were mentally or physically disabled.
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