Religion and Racial Progress in Twentieth-Century Britain by Patrick T. Merricks

Author:Patrick T. Merricks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Some Reflection on Eugenics and Religion

If Barnes was Britain’s foremost mediator between the churchman and eugenicist, his bio-spiritual determinism was the most ambitious attempt to fuse the two philosophies. He firmly believed that “In the Divine scheme of things we shall be judged not by absolute standards but according to our genes.” 59 With man “to a small yet increasing degree master of his own fate,” Christians and eugenicists must unite to create the “spiritually-eugenic society.” 60 Eugenics and religion seemed to depend on each other:The influences which determine birth-rate are fundamentally not material but – in the largest sense of the word – religious. Is life worth living? Are children a heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord? A deep-seated pessimism, in part bred of war, in part the result of decay of religious certainty, is one cause of the slow decay of our best stocks. 61

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