HJ Muller

Professor at UT; geneticist and positive eugenicist
Man's Future Birthright
The World View of Moderns

Dewey and the Alexander Technique

From Armstrong's Modernism, Technology, and the Body, page 107- account of Dewey's affection for the Alexander Technique, conceived by F. Matthias Alexander, which sought to create habits by repetition - reflective mind (rational mind, not subconscious) can inculcate these new habits - Randolph Bourne rejected it in the New Republic.
Alexander's books: Man's Supreme Inheritance (1910); Conscious Control (1912)

Henri Bergson

Creative Evolution, 1907. Says Wiki: "Creative Evolution (L'Evolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an élan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed.

The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.

Harvard philosopher William James intended to write the introduction to the English translation of the book, but died in 1910 prior to its completion."

Darkness and Dawn trilogy

by George England, 1914. Descrip from Amazon:

"The Vacant World, the first novel, begins when a secretary, Beatrice Kendrick, and her boss, a young engineer named Allan Stern, awaken on an upper floor of a ruined Manhattan skyscraper, thousands of years in the future when civilization has been destroyed. The pair has been in a state of suspended animation for fifteen hundred years. Changes in the earth's features as well as monstrously mutated "humans" make it clear they have little hope of survival. The pair organize their resources to face the savage alternatives about them and the closeness created by their mutual interdependency inevitably kindles romance between Allan and Beatrice.

In Book Two, Beyond the Great Oblivion, Allan and Beatrice begin to discover the nature of the catastrophe that has split the Earth open. Rebuilding an airplane, they find a "bottomless" chasm near Pittsburgh where a huge portion of the Earth has been torn away to become a second moon. Alan and Beatrice earn the loyalty of the People of this Abyss and lead them from the chasm to New York.

In Book Three, The Afterglow, Allan and Beatrice, with the People of the Abyss, prepare to recolonize the Earth's surface. But first, they must defeat the devolved, cannibalistic survivors who populate Earth's cities.

Analog calls Darkness and Dawn "a classic trilogy," while historian/critic Sam Moskowitz terms it "a masterpiece."

Bibliographic notes: Eugenics

Bannister, Robert C, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought (1984)
Chamberlin and Gilman, eds, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (1985)
Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought
Ludmerer, Genetics and American Society
Pickens, Eugenics and the Progressives
Selden, Steven. Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (1999).
Selden, Steven. All other cites.

Prosecutor Stewart's response to defense attorney Malone

"Shut the door on science when science sets a canker on the soul of a child." (Larson, Summer of the Gods, 179.)

Anti-evolution education books - primary sources

TT Martin - Hell and the High School
Price - The Phantom of Organic Evolution

George McReady Price

Seventh Day Adventist, advocate of creationist science & science ed - appeared also in Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture

Henry Linville

Organizer of progressive Dewitt Clinton High School biology curriculum (from Larson, Summer of the Gods, p 73)

Maynard Shipley

Founder (?) Science League of America (from Larson, Summer of the Gods)
Archives at Bancroft Library

Evolution: Bibliographic Notes

Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth Century Literature (2000).
Kemp, Peter. HG Wells and the Culminating Ape (1996).

L. Frank Baum

Tip from Bridger: in The Magical Monarch of Mo, published 1898, a full-length children's fantasy novel by Baum, there is a land where there are sugar lakes, caramels grow on trees, and monkeys talk. Something about an instrumental/paradisical vision of nature - knowing how to get what you want from what there is? What about the talking monkeys? Wikipedia says that this book was supposed to be a sort of American Alice in Wonderland. What about The Wizard of Oz - how do I fit that in?