It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in thefire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice and they gave praise thereof to God; who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enemy.
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9 For one of the best accounts of this subject, see Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
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13 The history of scientific racism is examined in detail in Allan Chase, The Legacy of Malthus: the social costs of the new scientific racism (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980).
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14 Ibid., p. 173.
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21 Ibid., p. 37.
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25 Barry Mehler, 'Eliminating the inferior: American and Nazi sterilization programs', Science for the People (November-December 1987), p. 2. Original citation: 'Eugenical sterilization in Germany,' I (Vol. 18, no. 5, September-October 1933), p. 90-90.
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26 'Eliminating the inferior', op. cit., p. 3. Original citation: Charles R. Stockard, remarks made during the general discussion at the 'Round Table Conference on Eugenics in Relation to Medicine' at the New York Academy of Medicine, 21 April 1937. American Eugenics Society Papers, BK 6.
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