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John Harris (c. 1690 - 5 October 1767) was a British courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons for forty years from 1727 to 1767. He was a Member of Parliament for Helston from 1727 and then sat for Ashburton from 1741 to 1767. From 1741 he also held the post of Master of the Household to George II and III. Harris was the second son of William Harris. His elder brother, Christopher Harris, was MP for Okehampton. References

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“We put down mad dogs; we kill the wild, untamed ox; we use the knife on sick sheep to stop their infecting the flock; we destroy abnormal offspring at birth; children, too, if they are born weak or deformed, we drown. Yet this is not the work of anger, but of reason – to separate the sound from the worthless.”
— Seneca the Younger; as quoted from Seneca: Moral and Political Essays (ed. by John M. Cooper and J. F. Procopé) (1995), Cambridge University Press, p. 32
“We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (M. Faber, trans.), University of Nebraska Press Lincoln, (1996), §520
“60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too.”
— [A] New People (the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the Nazi Party) (1938).
“The only remedy, if one be possible at all, is to alter the relative fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community.”
— , 1903. On the inheritance of the mental and moral characters in man. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 33, 179-237.
“Any new set of conditions which renders a species' food and safety very easily obtained, seems to lead to degeneration.”
— Ray Lankester (1880), Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism
“There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”
— p. 414

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“We put down mad dogs; we kill the wild, untamed ox; we use the knife on sick sheep to stop their infecting the flock; we destroy abnormal offspring at birth; children, too, if they are born weak or deformed, we drown. Yet this is not the work of anger, but of reason – to separate the sound from the worthless.”
— Seneca the Younger; as quoted from Seneca: Moral and Political Essays (ed. by John M. Cooper and J. F. Procopé) (1995), Cambridge University Press, p. 32
“We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (M. Faber, trans.), University of Nebraska Press Lincoln, (1996), §520
“60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too.”
— [A] New People (the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the Nazi Party) (1938).
“The only remedy, if one be possible at all, is to alter the relative fertility of the good and the bad stocks in the community.”
— , 1903. On the inheritance of the mental and moral characters in man. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 33, 179-237.
“Any new set of conditions which renders a species' food and safety very easily obtained, seems to lead to degeneration.”
— Ray Lankester (1880), Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism
“There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”
— p. 414

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