Social Darwinism in general and Eugenics in particular were considered part of the Progressive movement in the most specific sense, in the Pelagian view that society and people are infinitely perfectible through the use of the coercive tools of government to supposedly improve society. In this case, through a “scientific” application of breeding tools used on animals to the human species. Few young people – can begin to imagine the hold the Eugenics ideology held in America throughout the first half of the century.
Christ alone cornestone Weak made strong in the Savior’s love Through the storm He Is Lord Lord of all —— “Rescue the perishing, Care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave; Weep o’er the erring ones, Lift up the fallen, Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save.” Fanny Crosby “Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm-tossed human vessels. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endanger its cargo….If civilization is to be saved from the wreckage threatened by intelligence not consecrated by love, it must be saved by the moral code of the meek and lowly Nazarene. His teachings, and His teachings alone, can so...
