...fable — who were also more alarmist than Fisher. It was the progressive Jennings who asserted that "a defective gene — such a thing as produces diabetes,...impalpable, that blasts the human being in bud or leaf. Such a thing must be stopped wherever it is recognized."32 Fisher's primary criticism was levelled...

...fable — who were also more alarmist than Fisher. It was the progressive Jennings who asserted that "a defective gene — such a thing as produces diabetes,...impalpable, that blasts the human being in bud or leaf. Such a thing must be stopped wherever it is recognized."32 Fisher's primary criticism was levelled...

...historical fable -who were also more alarmist than Fisher. It was the progressive Jennings who asserted that "a defective gene - such a thing as produces diabetes,...impalpable, that blasts the human being in bud or leaf. Such a thing must be stopped wherever it is recognized" (Jennings 1927, p. 274). Fisher's primary...

...Jennings, writing in a 1930 treatise, The Biological Basis of Human Nature, described the problem this way: "A defective gene - such a thing as produces diabetes,...self-perpetuating creature, invisible, impalpable, that blasts a human being in bud or leaf. Such a thing must be stopped wherever it is recognized" (cited in Paul...

...fundamental eugenic ideology) demonstrates this basic eugenic attitude with stark and threatening clarity. A defective gene — such a thing as produces diabetes,...impalpable, that blasts the human being in bud or leaf. Such a thing must be stopped wherever it is recognized.'* The eugenic perspective reduces the...

...advance far beyond its present point. For no scientific advance is there greater need. Until that comes, genetics can propose no practicable plan for positive...material realization of a demon of evil ; a living self -perpetuating creature, invisible, impalpable, that blasts the human beipg in bud or in leaf....