Re: Jensen redux: an historical aside

From: Paul Dillon (dillonph@northcoast.com)
Date: Sun Dec 05 1999 - 19:21:21 PST


Phil,

I'm not sure about this but once heard from someone knowledgeable that
Thomas More's Utopia was a play on words since it's meaning in Greek is both
"good place (eutopos) and noplace (utopos?). By extension then, eugenics
could mean "good origin" and also "no origin" making it a subtle statement
about the relationship between human qualities and their biological origins.
Not exactly what the folks you cited had in mind I suspect.

Paul H. Dillon



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