“It would seem Christianity outweighed Mother Nature and execution as a dysgenic

–“It would seem Christianity outweighed Mother Nature and execution as a dysgenic influence.”–

Hmm. Prohibiting marriage in the Clerisy and Prohibiting near breeding out to six generations were certainly dysgenic. But I hadn’t really thought about it that way since the hajnal line was not a church idea but a secular one. The hanging of criminals wasn’t. And it is secularism in the middle ages that led to the eugenics of the northern europeans.

So despite the church, between the demand for intermarriage among the aristocratic and noble families, the return of classical thought, bipartite manorialism, aggressive hanging of every malcontent they could lay their hands on, and lots of attritional wars, and the restoration of european trade by the hansa – european eugenics continued.

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