Reform and Eugenics

Stephen Prothero reviews a book about the history of eugenics. This is what I find interesting.

The period in which eugenics became faddish is typically remembered as an era in which science and religion were at war. (Think only of the clashes over Darwinism.) But as Christine Rosen notes in "Preaching Eugenics," (Oxford University, 286 pages, $35) liberal Protestants and reform Jews were aligned from the start with the progenitors of this pseudo-science.

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In fact, the long list of clergy who plumped for eugenics -- among others, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue of New York... -- reads like a "Who's Who" of American religious modernism. [Emphasis mine]