The folkish State has to make up for what is today neglected in this field in all directions. It has to put the race into the center of life in general. It has to care for its preservation in purity. It has to make the child the most precious possession of a people. It has to take care that only the healthy beget children; that there is only one disgrace: to be sick and to bring children into the world despite one's own deficiencies; but one highest honor: to renounce this. Further, on the other hand this has to be looked upon as objectionable: to keep healthy children from the nation. Thereby the State has to appear as the guardian of a thousand years' future, in the face of which the wish and the egoism of the individual appears as nothing and has to submit. It has to put the most modern medical means at the service of this knowledge. It has to declare unfit for propagation everybody who is visibly ill and has inherited a disease and it has to carry this out in practice. On the other hand, it has to care that the fertility of the healthy woman is not limited by the financial mismanagement of a State regime which makes children a curse for the parents. It has to do away with that foul, nay criminal, indifference with which today the social presumptions of a family with many children is treated, and in its place it has to consider it- self the guardian of this precious blessing of a people. Its care belongs more to the child than to the adult.(1)
In this passage, Hitler asserts that the state must take a greater interest in caring for children. He suggests that the state should curtail procreation by unhealthy people.
Citations,(2) bitches. Use them.
The quotation you cite seems to appear on a website belonging to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.(3) Frankly, I have no idea what this essay _is_. There is no context whatsoever. The context provided is completely baffling. They fail to provide any properly formatted citations.(4) The website claims the essay was published in the Nov/Dec 1999 issue of "The American Enterprise." A publication under this name could not be found in Ulrich's Periodical Directory online. (5)
With today's ease of access to full text materials, there is no excuse for this sort of sloppiness.
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In this passage, Hitler asserts that the state must take a greater interest in caring for children. He suggests that the state should curtail procreation by unhealthy people.
Citations,(2) bitches. Use them.
The quotation you cite seems to appear on a website belonging to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.(3) Frankly, I have no idea what this essay _is_. There is no context whatsoever. The context provided is completely baffling. They fail to provide any properly formatted citations.(4) The website claims the essay was published in the Nov/Dec 1999 issue of "The American Enterprise." A publication under this name could not be found in Ulrich's Periodical Directory online. (5)
With today's ease of access to full text materials, there is no excuse for this sort of sloppiness.
1. Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. 19th impression, Edited by Chamberlain et al, Translated by James Murphy (New York: Reynal And Hitchcock, 1941), http://www.archive.org/details/meinkampf035176mbp (accessed December 7, 2008)
2. The Chicago Manual of Style Online, s.v. "17.146 Documentation II: Specific Content > Books >Electronic Books > Electronic editions of older works," http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ch17/ch17_sec146.html (accessed December 8, 2008).
3. Lapin, Rabbi Daniel. Adolf Hitler, http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/lapin.htm (accessed December 7, 2008).
4. The Chicago Manual of Style Online, s.v. "17.149 Documentation II: Specific Content > Periodicals > Information to be included," http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ch17/ch17_sec149.html (accessed December 8, 2008).
5. Ulrichsweb.com, http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ (accessed December 7, 2008).