Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...evolutionary decay of modern man, on the biological factor in crime, but this is his fullest survey to date of the biology- &-behavior problem in general. He trades hard punches with social scientists, or at least with extreme behaviorists among them who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. Hooton's contention: since feeblemindedness can be inherited, why not feeble morality? A favorite phrase of his is "moral imbecile...
...this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window. They cannot deny that bodily differences are inherited, so they simply put body and mind in separate compartments. "This," says Hooton, "is the human declaration of independence. It has produced a social schizophrenia which is making a madhouse of civilization...
Rhapsodized Dr. Shear: "The public and private life of the great city over millennia of time, its history and art, its bloom and decay, in fact the whole typical course of human destiny, are revealed in the results of this excavation...
Hooton trades intellectual punches with social scientists, especially with extreme behavorists among them, who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. He contends that since feeble-mindedness can be inherited, so too can feeble-morality. One of his favorite phrases is "moral imbecility...
...labor, and recognized that her kind of work could now be carried on more effectively in cooperation with them. But for the future, the lessons she learned at Cleveland will always hold good. Even the most iron-bound collective bargaining contract cannot by itself insure good labor relations. The human elements too important. Mary Gilsons will always be in demand as long as there are employers and employees...