eugenics

82:6.1There are no pure races in the world to­day. The early and orig­i­nal evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples of color have only two rep­re­sen­ta­tive races per­sist­ing in the world, the yel­low man and the black man; and even these two races are much ad­mixed with the ex­tinct col­ored peo­ples. While the so-called white race is pre­dom­i­nantly de­scended from the an­cient blue man, it is ad­mixed more or less with all other races much as is the red man of the Amer­i­cas.

82:6.2Of the six col­ored San­gik races, three were pri­mary and three were sec­ondary. Though the pri­mary races—blue, red, and yel­low—were in many re­spects su­pe­rior to the three sec­ondary peo­ples, it should be re­mem­bered that these sec­ondary races had many de­sir­able traits which would have con­sid­er­ably en­hanced the pri­mary peo­ples if their bet­ter strains could have been ab­sorbed.

82:6.3Pres­ent-day prej­u­dice against “half-castes,” “hy­brids,” and “mon­grels” arises be­cause mod­ern racial cross­breed­ing is, for the greater part, be­tween the grossly in­fe­rior strains of the races con­cerned. You also get un­sat­is­fac­tory off­spring when the de­gen­er­ate strains of the same race in­ter­marry.

82:6.4If the pres­ent-day races of Uran­tia could be freed from the curse of their low­est strata of de­te­ri­o­rated, an­ti­so­cial, fee­ble-minded, and out­cast spec­i­mens, there would be lit­tle ob­jec­tion to a lim­ited race amal­ga­ma­tion. And if such racial mix­tures could take place be­tween the high­est types of the sev­eral races, still less ob­jec­tion could be of­fered.

82:6.5Hy­bridiza­tion of su­pe­rior and dis­sim­i­lar stocks is the se­cret of the cre­ation of new and more vig­or­ous strains. And this is true of plants, an­i­mals, and the hu­man species. Hy­bridiza­tion aug­ments vigor and in­creases fer­til­ity. Race mix­tures of the av­er­age or su­pe­rior strata of var­i­ous peo­ples greatly in­crease cre­ative po­ten­tial, as is shown in the pres­ent pop­u­la­tion of the United States of North Amer­ica. When such mat­ings take place be­tween the lower or in­fe­rior strata, cre­ativ­ity is di­min­ished, as is shown by the pres­ent-day peo­ples of south­ern In­dia.

82:6.6Race blend­ing greatly con­tributes to the sud­den ap­pear­ance of new char­ac­ter­is­tics, and if such hy­bridiza­tion is the union of su­pe­rior strains, then these new char­ac­ter­is­tics will also be su­pe­rior traits.

82:6.7As long as pres­ent-day races are so over­loaded with in­fe­rior and de­gen­er­ate strains, race in­ter­min­gling on a large scale would be most detri­men­tal, but most of the ob­jec­tions to such ex­per­i­ments rest on so­cial and cul­tural prej­u­dices rather than on bi­o­log­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions. Even among in­fe­rior stocks, hy­brids of­ten are an im­prove­ment on their an­ces­tors. Hy­bridiza­tion makes for species im­prove­ment be­cause of the role of the dom­i­nant genes. Racial in­ter­mix­ture in­creases the like­li­hood of a larger num­ber of the de­sir­able dom­i­nants be­ing pres­ent in the hy­brid.

82:6.8For the past hun­dred years more racial hy­bridiza­tion has been tak­ing place on Uran­tia than has oc­curred in thou­sands of years. The dan­ger of gross dishar­monies as a re­sult of cross­breed­ing of hu­man stocks has been greatly ex­ag­ger­ated. The chief trou­bles of “half-breeds” are due to so­cial prej­u­dices.

82:6.9The Pit­cairn ex­per­i­ment of blend­ing the white and Poly­ne­sian races turned out fairly well be­cause the white men and the Poly­ne­sian women were of fairly good racial strains. In­ter­breed­ing be­tween the high­est types of the white, red, and yel­low races would im­me­di­ately bring into ex­is­tence many new and bi­o­log­i­cally ef­fec­tive char­ac­ter­is­tics. These three peo­ples be­long to the pri­mary San­gik races. Mix­tures of the white and black races are not so de­sir­able in their im­me­di­ate re­sults, nei­ther are such mu­latto off­spring so ob­jec­tion­able as so­cial and racial prej­u­dice would seek to make them ap­pear. Phys­i­cally, such white-black hy­brids are ex­cel­lent spec­i­mens of hu­man­ity, not­with­stand­ing their slight in­fe­ri­or­ity in some other re­spects.

82:6.10When a pri­mary San­gik race amal­ga­mates with a sec­ondary San­gik race, the lat­ter is con­sid­er­ably im­proved at the ex­pense of the for­mer. And on a small scale—ex­tend­ing over long pe­ri­ods of time—there can be lit­tle se­ri­ous ob­jec­tion to such a sac­ri­fi­cial con­tri­bu­tion by the pri­mary races to the bet­ter­ment of the sec­ondary groups. Bi­o­log­i­cally con­sid­ered, the sec­ondary San­giks were in some re­spects su­pe­rior to the pri­mary races.

82:6.11Af­ter all, the real jeop­ardy of the hu­man species is to be found in the un­re­strained mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of the in­fe­rior and de­gen­er­ate strains of the var­i­ous civ­i­lized peo­ples rather than in any sup­posed dan­ger of their racial in­ter­breed­ing.

82:6.12[Pre­sented by the Chief of Ser­a­phim sta­tioned on Uran­tia.]

52:3.4This age usu­ally wit­nesses the com­ple­tion of the elim­i­na­tion of the un­fit and the still fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the racial strains; on nor­mal worlds the de­fec­tive bes­tial ten­den­cies are very nearly elim­i­nated from the re­pro­duc­ing stocks of the realm.

64:3.5850,000 years ago the su­pe­rior Bado­nan tribes be­gan a war­fare of ex­ter­mi­na­tion di­rected against their in­fe­rior and an­i­mal­is­tic neigh­bors. In less than one thou­sand years most of the bor­der­land an­i­mal groups of these re­gions had been ei­ther de­stroyed or driven back to the south­ern forests. This cam­paign for the ex­ter­mi­na­tion of in­fe­ri­ors brought about a slight im­prove­ment in the hill tribes of that age. And the mixed de­scen­dants of this im­proved Ba­don­ite stock ap­peared on the stage of ac­tion as an ap­par­ently new peo­ple—the Ne­an­derthal race.

80:1.7Slowly these mi­grat­ing sons of Eden united with the higher types of the blue race, in­vig­o­rat­ing their cul­tural prac­tices while ruth­lessly ex­ter­mi­nat­ing the lin­ger­ing strains of Ne­an­derthal stock. This tech­nique of race blend­ing, com­bined with the elim­i­na­tion of in­fe­rior strains, pro­duced a dozen or more vir­ile and pro­gres­sive groups of su­pe­rior blue men, one of which you have de­nom­i­nated the Cro-Magnons.

80:5.5The strongholds of the blue man which per­sisted longest were in south­ern France, but the last great mil­i­tary re­sis­tance was over­come along the Somme. The later con­quest pro­gressed by com­mer­cial pen­e­tra­tion, pop­u­la­tion pres­sure along the rivers, and by con­tin­ued in­ter­mar­riage with the su­pe­ri­ors, cou­pled with the ruth­less ex­ter­mi­na­tion of the in­fe­ri­ors.

80:5.6When the tribal coun­cil of the And­ite el­ders had ad­judged an in­fe­rior cap­tive to be un­fit, he was, by elab­o­rate cer­e­mony, com­mit­ted to the shaman priests, who es­corted him to the river and ad­min­is­tered the rites of ini­ti­a­tion to the “happy hunt­ing grounds”—lethal sub­mer­gence. In this way the white in­vaders of Eu­rope ex­ter­mi­nated all peo­ples en­coun­tered who were not quickly ab­sorbed into their own ranks, and thus did the blue man come to an end—and quickly.

68:6.8The early races of­ten re­sorted to prac­tices de­signed to re­strict pop­u­la­tion; all prim­i­tive tribes killed de­formed and sickly chil­dren. Girl ba­bies were fre­quently killed be­fore the times of wife pur­chase. Chil­dren were some­times stran­gled at birth, but the fa­vorite method was ex­po­sure. The fa­ther of twins usu­ally in­sisted that one be killed since mul­ti­ple births were be­lieved to be caused ei­ther by magic or by in­fi­delity. As a rule, how­ever, twins of the same sex were spared. While these taboos on twins were once well-nigh uni­ver­sal, they were never a part of the An­don­ite mores; these peo­ples al­ways re­garded twins as omens of good luck.

111:4.4The in­ner and the outer worlds have a dif­fer­ent set of val­ues. Any civ­i­liza­tion is in jeop­ardy when three quar­ters of its youth en­ter ma­te­ri­al­is­tic pro­fes­sions and de­vote them­selves to the pur­suit of the sen­sory ac­tiv­i­ties of the outer world. Civ­i­liza­tion is in dan­ger when youth ne­glect to in­ter­est them­selves in ethics, so­ci­ol­ogy, eu­gen­ics, phi­los­o­phy, the fine arts, re­li­gion, and cos­mol­ogy.

70:9.14What may be re­garded as right in one age may not be so re­garded in an­other. The sur­vival of large num­bers of de­fec­tives and de­gen­er­ates is not be­cause they have any nat­u­ral right thus to en­cum­ber twen­ti­eth-cen­tury civ­i­liza­tion, but sim­ply be­cause the so­ci­ety of the age, the mores, thus de­crees.

70:2.3War has had a so­cial value to past civ­i­liza­tions be­cause it:

70:2.41. Im­posed dis­ci­pline, en­forced co-op­er­a­tion.

70:2.52. Put a pre­mium on for­ti­tude and cour­age.

70:2.63. Fos­tered and so­lid­i­fied na­tion­al­ism.

70:2.74. De­stroyed weak and un­fit peo­ples.

70:2.85. Dis­solved the il­lu­sion of prim­i­tive equal­ity and se­lec­tively strat­i­fied so­ci­ety.

70:2.9War has had a cer­tain evo­lu­tion­ary and se­lec­tive value, but like slav­ery, it must some­time be aban­doned as civ­i­liza­tion slowly ad­vances. Olden wars pro­moted travel and cul­tural in­ter­course; these ends are now bet­ter served by mod­ern meth­ods of trans­port and com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Olden wars strength­ened na­tions, but mod­ern strug­gles dis­rupt civ­i­lized cul­ture. An­cient war­fare re­sulted in the dec­i­ma­tion of in­fe­rior peo­ples; the net re­sult of mod­ern con­flict is the se­lec­tive de­struc­tion of the best hu­man stocks. Early wars pro­moted or­ga­ni­za­tion and ef­fi­ciency, but these have now be­come the aims of mod­ern in­dus­try. Dur­ing past ages war was a so­cial fer­ment which pushed civ­i­liza­tion for­ward; this re­sult is now bet­ter at­tained by am­bi­tion and in­ven­tion. An­cient war­fare sup­ported the con­cept of a God of bat­tles, but mod­ern man has been told that God is love. War has served many valu­able pur­poses in the past, it has been an in­dis­pens­able scaf­fold­ing in the build­ing of civ­i­liza­tion, but it is rapidly be­com­ing cul­tur­ally bankrupt—in­ca­pable of pro­duc­ing div­i­dends of so­cial gain in any way com­men­su­rate with the ter­ri­ble losses at­ten­dant upon its in­vo­ca­tion.

52:2.11This prob­lem of race im­prove­ment is not such an ex­ten­sive un­der­tak­ing when it is at­tacked at this early date in hu­man evo­lu­tion. The pre­ced­ing pe­riod of tribal strug­gles and rugged com­pe­ti­tion in race sur­vival has weeded out most of the ab­nor­mal and de­fec­tive strains. An id­iot does not have much chance of sur­vival in a prim­i­tive and war­ring tribal so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tion. It is the false sen­ti­ment of your par­tially per­fected civ­i­liza­tions that fos­ters, pro­tects, and per­pet­u­ates the hope­lessly de­fec­tive strains of evo­lu­tion­ary hu­man stocks.

52:2.12It is nei­ther ten­der­ness nor al­tru­ism to be­stow fu­tile sym­pa­thy upon de­gen­er­ated hu­man be­ings, un­salv­able ab­nor­mal and in­fe­rior mor­tals. There ex­ist on even the most nor­mal of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds suf­fi­cient dif­fer­ences be­tween in­di­vid­u­als and be­tween nu­mer­ous so­cial groups to pro­vide for the full ex­er­cise of all those no­ble traits of al­tru­is­tic sen­ti­ment and un­selfish mor­tal min­istry with­out per­pet­u­at­ing the so­cially un­fit and the morally de­gen­er­ate strains of evolv­ing hu­man­ity. There is abun­dant op­por­tu­nity for the ex­er­cise of tol­er­ance and the func­tion of al­tru­ism in be­half of those un­for­tu­nate and needy in­di­vid­u­als who have not ir­re­triev­ably lost their moral her­itage and for­ever de­stroyed their spir­i­tual birthright.

99:3.5The church, be­cause of over­much false sen­ti­ment, has long min­is­tered to the un­der­priv­i­leged and the un­for­tu­nate, and this has all been well, but this same sen­ti­ment has led to the un­wise per­pet­u­a­tion of racially de­gen­er­ate stocks which have tremen­dously re­tarded the prog­ress of civ­i­liza­tion.

80:7.6The Aegean re­gion passed through five dis­tinct cul­tural stages, each less spir­i­tual than the pre­ced­ing, and ere­long the last glo­ri­ous era of art per­ished be­neath the weight of the rapidly mul­ti­ply­ing mediocre de­scen­dants of the Danu­bian slaves who had been im­ported by the later gen­er­a­tions of Greeks.

72:4.2The fee­ble-minded are trained only in agri­cul­ture and an­i­mal hus­bandry, and are com­mit­ted for life to spe­cial cus­to­dial colonies where they are seg­re­gated by sex to pre­vent par­ent­hood, which is de­nied all sub­nor­mals. These re­stric­tive mea­sures have been in op­er­a­tion for sev­enty-five years; the com­mit­ment de­crees are handed down by the pa­ren­tal courts.

72:5.2So­cial an­tag­o­nisms are less­en­ing, and good will is grow­ing apace. No grave eco­nomic prob­lems have arisen out of the abo­li­tion of slav­ery (over one hun­dred years ago) since this ad­just­ment was ef­fected grad­u­ally by the lib­er­a­tion of two per cent each year. Those slaves who sat­is­fac­to­rily passed men­tal, moral, and phys­i­cal tests were granted cit­i­zen­ship; many of these su­pe­rior slaves were war cap­tives or chil­dren of such cap­tives. Some fifty years ago they de­ported the last of their in­fe­rior slaves, and still more re­cently they are ad­dress­ing them­selves to the task of re­duc­ing the num­bers of their de­gen­er­ate and vi­cious classes.

72:10.1The meth­ods of this peo­ple in deal­ing with crime, in­san­ity, and de­gen­er­acy, while in some ways pleas­ing, will, no doubt, in oth­ers prove shock­ing to most Uran­tians. Or­di­nary crim­i­nals and the de­fec­tives are placed, by sexes, in dif­fer­ent ag­ri­cul­tural colonies and are more than self-sup­port­ing. The more se­ri­ous ha­bit­ual crim­i­nals and the in­cur­ably in­sane are sen­tenced to death in the lethal gas cham­bers by the courts. Nu­mer­ous crimes aside from mur­der, in­clud­ing be­trayal of gov­ern­men­tal trust, also carry the death penalty, and the vis­i­ta­tion of jus­tice is sure and swift.

72:10.3Ef­forts to pre­vent the breed­ing of crim­i­nals and de­fec­tives were be­gun over one hun­dred years ago and have al­ready yielded grat­i­fy­ing re­sults. There are no pris­ons or hos­pi­tals for the in­sane. For one rea­son, there are only about ten per cent as many of these groups as are found on Uran­tia.

80:3.9These changes, while re­sult­ing in cul­tural ad­vances, pro­duced cer­tain bi­o­logic ret­ro­gres­sions. Dur­ing the pre­vi­ous hunt­ing era the su­pe­rior tribes had in­ter­mar­ried with the higher types of war cap­tives and had un­vary­ingly de­stroyed those whom they deemed in­fe­rior. But as they com­menced to es­tab­lish set­tle­ments and en­gage in agri­cul­ture and com­merce, they be­gan to save many of the mediocre cap­tives as slaves. And it was the progeny of these slaves that sub­se­quently so greatly de­te­ri­o­rated the whole Cro-Magnon type. This ret­ro­gres­sion of cul­ture con­tin­ued un­til it re­ceived a fresh im­pe­tus from the east when the fi­nal and en masse in­va­sion of the Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans swept over Eu­rope, quickly ab­sorb­ing the Cro-Magnon type and cul­ture and ini­ti­at­ing the civ­i­liza­tion of the white races.

71:4.119. Race im­prove­ment.

109:3.8But with those be­ings who are vir­tu­ally dis­qual­i­fied for sur­vival by dis­in­her­i­tance through the agency of un­fit and in­fe­rior an­ces­tors, many a vir­gin Ad­juster has served a valu­able pre­lim­i­nary ex­pe­ri­ence in con­tact­ing evo­lu­tion­ary mind and thus has be­come bet­ter qual­i­fied for a sub­se­quent as­sign­ment to a higher type of mind on some other world.

71:3.8No so­ci­ety has pro­gressed very far when it per­mits idle­ness or tol­er­ates pov­erty. But pov­erty and de­pen­dence can never be elim­i­nated if the de­fec­tive and de­gen­er­ate stocks are freely sup­ported and per­mit­ted to re­pro­duce with­out re­straint.

• biologic disfellowshiping of more markedly unfit, defective, degenerate, and antisocial stocks
• difficulty in executing eugenics in absence of competent judges
• unfit should be eliminated before racial blending

51:4.8These six evo­lu­tion­ary races are des­tined to be blended and ex­alted by amal­ga­ma­tion with the progeny of the Adamic up­lifters. But be­fore these peo­ples are blended, the in­fe­rior and un­fit are largely elim­i­nated. The Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Son, with other suit­able plan­e­tary au­thor­i­ties, pass upon the fit­ness of the re­pro­duc­ing strains. The dif­fi­culty of ex­e­cut­ing such a rad­i­cal pro­gram on Uran­tia con­sists in the ab­sence of com­pe­tent judges to pass upon the bi­o­logic fit­ness or un­fit­ness of the in­di­vid­u­als of your world races. Not­with­stand­ing this ob­sta­cle, it seems that you ought to be able to agree upon the bi­o­logic dis­fel­low­ship­ing of your more markedly un­fit, de­fec­tive, de­gen­er­ate, and an­ti­so­cial stocks.

• racial interbreeding disastrous under present conditions

51:5.7But while the pure-line chil­dren of a plan­e­tary Gar­den of Eden can be­stow them­selves upon the su­pe­rior mem­bers of the evo­lu­tion­ary races and thereby up­step the bi­o­logic level of man­kind, it would not prove ben­e­fi­cial for the higher strains of Uran­tia mor­tals to mate with the lower races; such an un­wise pro­ce­dure would jeop­ar­dize all civ­i­liza­tion on your world. Hav­ing failed to achieve race har­mo­niza­tion by the Adamic tech­nique, you must now work out your plan­e­tary prob­lem of race im­prove­ment by other and largely hu­man meth­ods of adap­ta­tion and con­trol.

• all-important work of eliminating defectives and degenerates

52:2.9The races are pu­ri­fied and brought up to a high state of phys­i­cal per­fec­tion and in­tel­lec­tual strength be­fore the end of this era. The early de­vel­op­ment of a nor­mal world is greatly helped by the plan of pro­mot­ing the in­crease of the higher types of mor­tals with pro­por­tion­ate cur­tail­ment of the lower. And it is the fail­ure of your early peo­ples to thus dis­crim­i­nate be­tween these types that ac­counts for the pres­ence of so many de­fec­tive and de­gen­er­ate in­di­vid­u­als among the pres­ent-day Uran­tia races.

52:2.10One of the great achieve­ments of the age of the prince is this re­stric­tion of the mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of men­tally de­fec­tive and so­cially un­fit in­di­vid­u­als. Long be­fore the times of the ar­rival of the sec­ond Sons, the Adams, most worlds se­ri­ously ad­dress them­selves to the tasks of race pu­rifi­ca­tion, some­thing which the Uran­tia peo­ples have not even yet se­ri­ously un­der­taken.

• biologic disfellowshiping of more markedly unfit, defective, degenerate, and antisocial stocks

52:5.9Dur­ing this era the prob­lems of dis­ease and delin­quency are vir­tu­ally solved. De­gen­er­acy has al­ready been largely elim­i­nated by se­lec­tive re­pro­duc­tion. Dis­ease has been prac­ti­cally mas­tered through the high re­sis­tant qual­i­ties of the Adamic strains and by the in­tel­li­gent and world-wide ap­pli­ca­tion of the dis­cov­er­ies of the phys­i­cal sci­ences of pre­ced­ing ages. The av­er­age length of life, dur­ing this pe­riod, climbs well above the equiv­a­lent of three hun­dred years of Uran­tia time.

• biologic fitness through selective reproduction in light and life

55:4.112. The sec­ond stage of light and life. This epoch is sig­nal­ized on the worlds by the ar­rival of a Life Car­rier who be­comes the vol­un­teer ad­viser of the plan­e­tary rulers re­gard­ing the fur­ther ef­forts to pu­rify and sta­bi­lize the mor­tal race. Thus do the Life Car­ri­ers ac­tively par­tic­i­pate in the fur­ther evo­lu­tion of the hu­man race—phys­i­cally, so­cially, and eco­nom­i­cally. And then they ex­tend their super­vi­sion to the fur­ther pu­rifi­ca­tion of the mor­tal stock by the dras­tic elim­i­na­tion of the re­tarded and per­sist­ing rem­nants of in­fe­rior po­ten­tial of an in­tel­lec­tual, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture. Those who de­sign and plant life on an in­hab­ited world are fully com­pe­tent to ad­vise the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters, who have full and un­ques­tioned au­thor­ity to purge the evolv­ing race of all detri­men­tal in­flu­ences.

• biologic fitness through selective reproduction in light and life

55:6.3On a nor­mal world the bi­o­logic fit­ness of the mor­tal race was long since brought up to a high level dur­ing the post-Adamic epochs; and now, from age to age through­out the set­tled eras the phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion of man con­tin­ues. Both vi­sion and hear­ing are ex­tended. By now the pop­u­la­tion has be­come sta­tion­ary in num­bers. Re­pro­duc­tion is reg­u­lated in ac­cor­dance with plan­e­tary re­quire­ments and in­nate hered­i­tary en­dow­ments: The mor­tals on a planet dur­ing this age are di­vided into from five to ten groups, and the lower groups are per­mit­ted to pro­duce only one half as many chil­dren as the higher. The con­tin­ued im­prove­ment of such a mag­nif­i­cent race through­out the era of light and life is largely a mat­ter of the se­lec­tive re­pro­duc­tion of those racial strains which ex­hibit su­pe­rior qual­i­ties of a so­cial, philo­sophic, cos­mic, and spir­i­tual na­ture.

• all-important work of eliminating defectives and degenerates
• folly of allowing superiors to mate with inferiors

64:1.8And thus it has ever been on Uran­tia. Civ­i­liza­tions of great prom­ise have suc­ces­sively de­te­ri­o­rated and have fi­nally been ex­tin­guished by the folly of al­low­ing the su­pe­rior freely to pro­cre­ate with the in­fe­rior.

• scientific intelligence must supersede uncontrolled natural selection

65:3.6Man­kind on Uran­tia must solve its prob­lems of mor­tal de­vel­op­ment with the hu­man stocks it has—no more races will evolve from pre­hu­man sources through­out all fu­ture time. But this fact does not pre­clude the pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of vastly higher lev­els of hu­man de­vel­op­ment through the in­tel­li­gent fos­ter­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tials still res­i­dent in the mor­tal races. That which we, the Life Car­ri­ers, do to­ward fos­ter­ing and con­serv­ing the life strains be­fore the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will, man must do for him­self af­ter such an event and sub­se­quent to our re­tire­ment from ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in evo­lu­tion. In a gen­eral way, man’s evo­lu­tion­ary des­tiny is in his own hands, and sci­en­tific in­tel­li­gence must sooner or later su­per­sede the ran­dom func­tion­ing of un­con­trolled nat­u­ral se­lec­tion and chance sur­vival.

• foster normal man; keep subnormal under control

68:6.11From a world stand­point, over­pop­u­la­tion has never been a se­ri­ous prob­lem in the past, but if war is less­ened and sci­ence in­creas­ingly con­trols hu­man dis­eases, it may be­come a se­ri­ous prob­lem in the near fu­ture. At such a time the great test of the wis­dom of world lead­er­ship will pre­sent it­self. Will Uran­tia rulers have the in­sight and cour­age to fos­ter the mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of the av­er­age or sta­bi­lized hu­man be­ing in­stead of the ex­tremes of the super­nor­mal and the enor­mously in­creas­ing groups of the sub­nor­mal? The nor­mal man should be fos­tered; he is the back­bone of civ­i­liza­tion and the source of the mu­tant ge­niuses of the race. The sub­nor­mal man should be kept un­der so­ci­ety’s con­trol; no more should be pro­duced than are re­quired to ad­min­is­ter the lower lev­els of in­dus­try, those tasks re­quir­ing in­tel­li­gence above the an­i­mal level but mak­ing such low-grade de­mands as to prove ver­i­ta­ble slav­ery and bond­age for the higher types of man­kind.

• all-important work of eliminating defectives and degenerates

70:8.14Classes in so­ci­ety, hav­ing nat­u­rally formed, will per­sist un­til man grad­u­ally achieves their evo­lu­tion­ary oblit­er­a­tion through in­tel­li­gent ma­nip­u­la­tion of the bi­o­logic, in­tel­lec­tual, and spir­i­tual re­sources of a pro­gress­ing civ­i­liza­tion, such as:

70:8.151. Bi­o­logic ren­o­va­tion of the racial stocks—the se­lec­tive elim­i­na­tion of in­fe­rior hu­man strains. This will tend to erad­i­cate many mor­tal in­equal­i­ties.

70:8.162. Ed­u­ca­tional train­ing of the in­creased brain power which will arise out of such bi­o­logic im­prove­ment.

70:8.173. Re­li­gious quick­en­ing of the feel­ings of mor­tal kin­ship and broth­er­hood.

70:8.18But these mea­sures can bear their true fruits only in the dis­tant mil­len­ni­ums of the fu­ture, al­though much so­cial im­prove­ment will im­me­di­ately re­sult from the in­tel­li­gent, wise, and pa­tient ma­nip­u­la­tion of these ac­cel­er­a­tion fac­tors of cul­tural prog­ress. Re­li­gion is the mighty lever that lifts civ­i­liza­tion from chaos, but it is pow­er­less apart from the ful­crum of sound and nor­mal mind rest­ing se­curely on sound and nor­mal hered­ity.

• all-important work of eliminating defectives and degenerates

75:1.1The Adamic mis­sion on ex­per­i­men­tal, re­bel­lion-seared, and iso­lated Uran­tia was a formidable un­der­tak­ing. And the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter early be­came aware of the dif­fi­culty and com­plex­ity of their plan­e­tary as­sign­ment. Nev­er­the­less, they coura­geously set about the task of solv­ing their man­i­fold prob­lems. But when they ad­dressed them­selves to the all-im­por­tant work of elim­i­nat­ing the de­fec­tives and de­gen­er­ates from among the hu­man strains, they were quite dis­mayed. They could see no way out of the dilemma, and they could not take coun­sel with their su­pe­ri­ors on ei­ther Je­ru­sem or Eden­tia. Here they were, iso­lated and day by day con­fronted with some new and com­pli­cated tan­gle, some prob­lem that seemed to be un­solv­able.

75:1.2Un­der nor­mal con­di­tions the first work of a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve would be the co-or­di­na­tion and blend­ing of the races. But on Uran­tia such a project seemed just about hope­less, for the races, while bi­o­log­i­cally fit, had never been purged of their re­tarded and de­fec­tive strains.

• all-important work of eliminating defectives and degenerates

79:2.4About 15,000 B.C. in­creas­ing pop­u­la­tion pres­sure through­out Tur­kes­tan and Iran oc­ca­sioned the first re­ally ex­ten­sive And­ite move­ment to­ward In­dia. For over fif­teen cen­turies these su­pe­rior peo­ples poured in through the high­lands of Baluchis­tan, spread­ing out over the val­leys of the In­dus and Ganges and slowly mov­ing south­ward into the Dec­can. This And­ite pres­sure from the north­west drove many of the south­ern and east­ern in­fe­ri­ors into Burma and south­ern China but not suf­fi­ciently to save the in­vaders from racial oblit­er­a­tion.

79:2.5The fail­ure of In­dia to achieve the hege­mony of Eura­sia was largely a mat­ter of to­pog­ra­phy; pop­u­la­tion pres­sure from the north only crowded the ma­jor­ity of the peo­ple south­ward into the de­creas­ing ter­ri­tory of the Dec­can, sur­rounded on all sides by the sea. Had there been ad­ja­cent lands for em­i­gra­tion, then would the in­fe­ri­ors have been crowded out in all di­rec­tions, and the su­pe­rior stocks would have achieved a higher civ­i­liza­tion.

79:2.6As it was, these ear­lier And­ite con­querors made a des­per­ate at­tempt to pre­serve their iden­tity and stem the tide of racial en­gulf­ment by the es­tab­lish­ment of rigid re­stric­tions re­gard­ing in­ter­mar­riage. Nonethe­less, the And­ites had be­come sub­merged by 10,000 B.C., but the whole mass of the peo­ple had been markedly im­proved by this ab­sorp­tion.

79:2.7Race mix­ture is al­ways ad­van­ta­geous in that it fa­vors ver­sa­til­ity of cul­ture and makes for a pro­gres­sive civ­i­liza­tion, but if the in­fe­rior el­e­ments of racial stocks pre­dom­i­nate, such achieve­ments will be short-lived. A poly­glot cul­ture can be pre­served only if the su­pe­rior stocks re­pro­duce them­selves in a safe mar­gin over the in­fe­rior. Un­re­strained mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of in­fe­ri­ors, with de­creas­ing re­pro­duc­tion of su­pe­ri­ors, is un­fail­ingly sui­ci­dal of cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion.

79:2.8Had the And­ite con­querors been in num­bers three times what they were, or had they driven out or de­stroyed the least de­sir­able third of the mixed or­ange-green-in­digo in­hab­i­tants, then would In­dia have be­come one of the world’s lead­ing cen­ters of cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion and un­doubt­edly would have at­tracted more of the later waves of Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans that flowed into Tur­kes­tan and thence north­ward to Eu­rope.

• all-important work of eliminating defectives and degenerates

79:4.2The early Aryan cen­ters were scat­tered over the north­ern half of In­dia, no­tably in the north­west. These in­vaders never com­pleted the con­quest of the coun­try and sub­se­quently met their un­do­ing in this ne­glect since their lesser num­bers made them vul­ner­a­ble to ab­sorp­tion by the Dra­vid­i­ans of the south, who sub­se­quently over­ran the en­tire penin­sula ex­cept the Hi­malayan prov­inces.

69:5.107. Sex urge—the de­sire to buy one or more wives. Man’s first form of trad­ing was woman ex­change; it long pre­ceded horse trad­ing. But never did the barter in sex slaves ad­vance so­ci­ety; such traf­fic was and is a racial dis­grace, for at one and the same time it hin­dered the de­vel­op­ment of fam­ily life and pol­luted the bi­o­logic fit­ness of su­pe­rior peo­ples.