Eugenics: Madison Grant Book 'Passing of the Great Race,' Hitler Bible; White Sup, Nordic, Anti Immigrant

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- Wiki, ed. MADISON GRANT (Nov.19, 1865 - May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, zoologist, anthropologist, and writer known for his work as a conservationist, eugenicist, and advocate of scientific racism. Grant is less noted for his far-reaching achievements in conservation than for his pseudoscientific advocacy of Nordicism, a form of racism which views the "Nordic race" as superior.
As a white supremacist eugenicist, Grant was the author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916), one of the most famous racist texts, a book Adolf Hitler referred to as his personal Bible. Grant also played an active role in crafting immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the U.S. Grant was born in New York City, the son of Gabriel Grant, a physician and American Civil War surgeon, and Caroline Manice, a descendant of Walloon Huguenots in Dutch New York..
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he served on the boards of many eugenic and philanthropic societies, including the board of trustees at the American Museum of Natural History, as director of the American Eugenics Society, vice president of the Immigration Restriction League...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Grant

- Wiki, EUGENICS, a set of largely discredited beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter the frequency of various human phenotypes by inhibiting the fertility of those considered inferior, or promoting that of those considered superior.
The contemporary history of eugenics began in the late 19th century, when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom, and then spread to many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and most European countries (e.g., Sweden and Germany). Historically, the idea of eugenics has been used to argue for a broad array of practices ranging from prenatal care for mothers deemed genetically desirable to the forced sterilization and murder of those deemed unfit. To population geneticists, the term has included the avoidance of inbreeding without altering allele frequencies...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

- Madison Grant: The American Eugenicist Who Inspired Hitler to Eradicate the Jews, 2023,
https://aish.com/madison-grant-the-american-eugenicist-who-inspired-hitler-to-eradicate-the-jews/

- Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924, UVa,
https://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/eugenics/2-origins/index.html

- Eugenics in California, Wiki. Eugenics in California is a notable part of eugenics in the United States. As an early leading force in the field of eugenics, California became the third state in the United States to enact a sterilization law. By 1921, California had accounted for 80% of sterilizations nationwide..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_California

Intro, Fear and Eugenics. PBS, The Origins of Eugenics in America; The US and the Holocaust, 2023. (6 mins).

PBS, The Eugenics Crusade, Full Documentary, ( 1 hr. 53 mins).

The Horrors of Eugenics, documentary. (26 mins).

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1. To make a "pure race" required many generations

Of inbreeding.
As the environment changes, a variety of genes are needed to adapt to those changes. We never know when or what changes will arise. The larger the gene pool, the better the chance of survival of a species.
That is why inbreeding dangerous.

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2. Impt points esp a large gene pool to adapt to changes. Thanks for replying.