“It is a reproach to our intelligence that we as a people should have to support about half a million insane, feeble-minded, epileptic, blind and deaf, 80,000 prisoners and 100,000 paupers at a cost of over 100 million dollars per year.”

About Charles Davenport

Biologist • American

Charles Benedict Davenport was a prominent American biologist and a leading figure in the American eugenics movement. He established the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1910, which became a...