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With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a certain and great present evil. Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.


Charles Darwin


#darwinism #eugenics #natural-selection #planned-parenthood #population-control

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.


Benjamin Disraeli


#comfort #materialism #progress #science #science

But then you slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a guy; it means she likes him.


Lisa McMann


#dream-catcher #janie #lisa-mcmann #wake #dreams

The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife


Lisa McMann


#fade #funny #lisa-mcmann #dreams

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.


Christopher Hitchens


#logic #rationalisation #reason #september- #iraq

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.


Lisa Kleypas


#fairytaleoppy #harry #lisa-kleypas #fairies

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.


Christopher Pike


#gossip

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.


Louis de Bernières


#generalisations #greeks #spanish

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.


Lisa Kleypas


#historical-romance #lisa-kleypas #funny

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.


James Buchan


#doubt #empire #fall #more #much






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