Download or read book Marriage Laws and Statutory Experiments in Eugenics in the United States (Classic Reprint) written by R. Newton Crane and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Marriage Laws and Statutory Experiments in Eugenics in the United States There is no epoch in American History of greater interest or of greater importance to the student and the sociologist than that which followed the landing of the Pilgrims upon the continent of North America. In England and in the Netherlands and in Switzerland, they had lived in protest against the constituted authority of their native land in matters of faith and dogma. They claimed the fullest freedom of action where religious and social observances were concerned, and at the same time they denied to their opponents a like liberty. Controversies which at first centred about forms and ceremonies and vestments, were modified by disputes over the personal character of the sovereign and became identified with the political parties in the state. Laws were good or were bad according to the interpretation they put upon them. But, however intolerant we, in this age, may be of their intolerance, we cannot fail to recognise that they evinced a purity and consistency of conduct in morals which exalted their lives and exercised a wholesome influence upon their domestic relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.