"In the course of what we call stirpiculture," said Noyes, "Charles, as you know, is in the situation of one who is by and by to become a father. ❋ Charles Nordhoff (1865)
And in the time to come, when the brain ceases to be the servant of the belly, the head the lackey of the heart, in that time stirpiculture, which is scientific perpetuation, will take the place of romantic love. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Here's where it gets a little scary … eugenics, then known as stirpiculture, was introduced in 1869. ❋ KA (2010)
"stirpiculture," at what Mr. Francis Galton now calls "Eugenics," in the mating of the members, and there was also a limitation of offspring. ❋ Unknown (1906)
It is well, and it might have been better, but do not give over and talk of stirpiculture. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A plea for the unborn: An argument that children could, and therefore should, be born with a sound mind in a sound body, and that man may become perfect by means of selection and stirpiculture by Henry Smith ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even if it were possible, through the adoption of some system of stirpiculture, to breed all human beings to a common type, so that they would all be tall or short, fat or thin, light or dark, according to choice, it would not be a very desirable ideal, would it? ❋ John Spargo (1921)
+ Campanella's "City of the Sun" (1637), which emphasizes community of property and stirpiculture; ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The superior qualities of the guardian and auxiliary class were to be maintained by the practice of stirpiculture and state control of the bringing up of children. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
He has developed and understands stirpiculture -- the improvement of the race by careful breeding -- which with us is as yet mere theory, and as we look down at the ant, we look up to him because the strangely active creature manages to do without sleep. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Another change in our customs -- the advocacy, and even the practice, of abortion and castration -- would not have met with his approval; he was strongly opposed to both, and with the high moral level that ruled his community, neither was necessary to the maintenance of the stirpiculture that prevailed. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
Yet we will have to offer this fact in the interests of stirpiculture: the inconstant Philip and the termagant Olympias brought into the world Alexander; whereas the sons of Aristotle lived their day and died, without making a ripple on the surface of history. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
As to stirpiculture, the intelligent and systematic breeding of men and women with a view to improvement of the species -- it is a thing of the far future, It is hardly in sight. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
Thus I have been enabled to see these substantial old friends of mine sit on the platform and give tone to lectures on anatomy, and lectures on agriculture, and lectures on stirpiculture, and lectures on astronomy, on chemistry, on miscegenation, on "Is Man Descended from the Kangaroo?" on veterinary matters, on all kinds of religion, and several kinds of politics; and have seen them give tone and grandeur to the Four-legged Girl, the ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
“stirpiculture,” at what Mr. Francis Galton now calls ❋ Herbert George (2006)
