The Garden of Eden; Or, Paradise Lost and FoundThe Garden of Eden was first published in 1875. This version is a 58-page facsimile of the version in The Human Body The Temple of God published in 1890 London. Here Victoria Woodhull explains her controversial idea that the biblical story of the Garden of Eden is an allegory about the human body. This ebook includes as Chapter 3, Press Notices, which are eugenic-related selections from newspapers and letters articles published in The Human Body. The Garden of Eden is Chapter 4 in the book, Lady Eugenist: Feminist Eugenics in the Speeches and Writings of Victoria Woodhull. Many readers may prefer to get that printed edition instead or have it purchased by their public or school library, so others can use it. (Lady Eugenist is also available as a ebook.) This ebook also includes one additional chapter from Lady Eugenist: the introduction, Chapter 1, Was Victoria Woodhull the First Eugenist? The entire ebook is 102 pages long, and there are no digital rights management restrictions on the reader's ability to print or cut-and-paste. |
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... eugenics . Five were published during the first decade of his interest ( 1865-1875 ) , when he was enthusiastic ... negative themes ( " Are We Degen- erating , ” 1903 and “ Restrictions in Marriage , ” 1905 ) . You see that increasing ...
... eugenics . Five were published during the first decade of his interest ( 1865-1875 ) , when he was enthusiastic ... negative themes ( " Are We Degen- erating , ” 1903 and “ Restrictions in Marriage , ” 1905 ) . You see that increasing ...
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... negative eugenics , targeting the poor , racial minorities , and recent immigrants , proved far more popular than positive eugenics , so much so that today within certain groups it is so deeply ingrained it does not even need to be ...
... negative eugenics , targeting the poor , racial minorities , and recent immigrants , proved far more popular than positive eugenics , so much so that today within certain groups it is so deeply ingrained it does not even need to be ...
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... eugenics . Revealing , the only point on which all those present agreed , Gilman told her audience of well - to - do women , was “ what she termed ' negative eugenics , ' or the move- ment to prevent the entering into the world of unfit ...
... eugenics . Revealing , the only point on which all those present agreed , Gilman told her audience of well - to - do women , was “ what she termed ' negative eugenics , ' or the move- ment to prevent the entering into the world of unfit ...
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... eugenics and making a religion of motherhood — in the 1870s , over thirty years before other feminists would take ... negative eugenics . After all , aren't liberals and socialists the great champions of the poor and aren't feminists the ...
... eugenics and making a religion of motherhood — in the 1870s , over thirty years before other feminists would take ... negative eugenics . After all , aren't liberals and socialists the great champions of the poor and aren't feminists the ...
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... negative eugenics ” which must have been an appalling sacrifice . We are commonly willing to “ lay down our lives ” for our country , but they had to forego motherhood for their country — and it was precisely the hardest thing for them ...
... negative eugenics ” which must have been an appalling sacrifice . We are commonly willing to “ lay down our lives ” for our country , but they had to forego motherhood for their country — and it was precisely the hardest thing for them ...
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Page 115 - And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end: I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Page 66 - And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Page 115 - Having the glory of God : and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 22 - Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Page 86 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 84 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 65 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 66 - God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Page 115 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...
Page 116 - And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl : and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.