According to Wikipedia ... Arnold Lucius Gesell (21 June 1880-29 May 1961) was a psychologist and pediatrician who helped develop the field of child development. John Taylor Gatto wrote ... The American Birth Control League left no doubt about its plans. Its position, as expressed by Yale psychologist Arnold L. Gesell, was that society need not wait for perfection of the infant science of eugenics before proceeding upon a course which will prevent renewal of defective protoplasm contaminating the stream of life. Gesell’s The Family and the Nation (1909), a thorough product of the new zeitgeist, advocated eugenic violence in dealing with inferiors. According to Gesell, We must do as with the feebleminded, organize the extinction of the tribe. Here was a far different promise of American life, a Connecticut Valley Yale-style pledge. Yet governors of the Birth Control League were acclaimed heroes in every progressive assembly. With this thrust, old-line Calvinism converted its theological elements into scientific truth, supported mathematically by the new Galtonian discipline of statistics. Yale was the most important command center for the reemergence of old-time Puritan religion, now thoroughly disguised behind the language of research methodology.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:32:22 +0000
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