to breed the generations of the future, were the servile, the indifferent, and again, the stupid. and therefore the most suitable parents of a high civilization, and put a strong check, if not a direct stop, to their progeny. to catch those who were the most fearless, truth-seeking, and intelligent. brought thousands of the foremost thinkers and men of political aptitudes to the scaffold, or imprisoned them during a large part of their manhood, or drove them as emigrants into other lands.Hence the Church, having first captured all the gentle natures and condemned them to celibacy, made another sweep of her huge nets. The policy of the religious world in Europe. She practised the arts which breeders would use, who aimed at creating ferocious, currish, and stupid natures. the Church brutalized the breed of our forefathers.as if she had aimed at selecting the rudest portion of the community to be alone the parents of future generations. they had no refuge elsewhere than in the bosom of the, by a policy so singularly unwise and suicidal. deeds of charity, to meditation, to literature, or to art. Whenever a man or woman was possessed of a gentle nature that fitted. in a very considerable degree, to the celebacy enjoined by religious orders on their votaries.
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The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort.1.2 Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883).
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