"In the course of what we call stirpiculture," said Noyes, "Charles, as you know, is in the situation of one who is by and by to become a father. From Wordnik.com. [The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation] Reference
Here's where it gets a little scary … eugenics, then known as stirpiculture, was introduced in 1869. From Wordnik.com. [God is for Suckers!] Reference
It is well, and it might have been better, but do not give over and talk of stirpiculture. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
A plea for the unborn: An argument that children could, and therefore should, be born with a sound mind in a sound body, and that man may become perfect by means of selection and stirpiculture by Henry Smith. From Wordnik.com. [Pelosi and Eugenics: 1932 or 2009?] Reference
+ Campanella's "City of the Sun" (1637), which emphasizes community of property and stirpiculture. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
The superior qualities of the guardian and auxiliary class were to be maintained by the practice of stirpiculture and state control of the bringing up of children. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Yet we will have to offer this fact in the interests of stirpiculture: the inconstant Philip and the termagant Olympias brought into the world Alexander; whereas the sons of Aristotle lived their day and died, without making a ripple on the surface of history. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
Another change in our customs -- the advocacy, and even the practice, of abortion and castration -- would not have met with his approval; he was strongly opposed to both, and with the high moral level that ruled his community, neither was necessary to the maintenance of the stirpiculture that prevailed. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society] Reference
“stirpiculture,” at what Mr. Francis Galton now calls. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
A few points in stirpiculture. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
Its "stirpiculture,". From Wordnik.com. [Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making] Reference
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