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14. Galton, Essays in Eugenics , 25, 28, 32.
15. Francis Galton, “Hereditary Talent and Character,” Macmillan's Magazine
12 (1865): 166.
16. Alfred Russel Wallace, “Interview Fragment,” in Alfred Russel Wallace: An
Anthology of His Shorter Writings , ed. Charles H. Smith (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991), 77. Orig. pub. 1912.
17. Alfred Russel Wallace, “The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of
Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection,' ” in Alfred Russel Wallace:
An Anthology of His Shorter Writings , ed. Charles H. Smith (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991), 26. Orig. pub. 1864.
18. Alfred Russel Wallace, “Human Selection,” in Alfred Russel Wallace: An
Anthology of His Shorter Writings , ed. Charles H. Smith (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991), 60. Orig. pub. 1890.
19. Patrick Parrinder, “Eugenics and Utopia: Sexual Selection from Galton to
Morris,” Utopian Studies 8 (1997): 1-12.
20. J. D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Three
Enemies of the Human Soul (London: Kegan Paul, 1929); Bertrand Russell,
Icarus, or the Future of Science (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924); and Aldous
Huxley, Brave New World (London: Chatto and Windus, 1932).
21. Haldane, “Daedalus,” 35.
22. Ibid., 42.
23. Ibid., 41-42, 46, 49.
24. Ibid., 36-37. For an interesting analysis of the ways in which myths of mon-
strosity, including the ancient Greek myth of Daedalus and Minatour, have stig-
matized the disabled while being used to warn against genetic engineering, see
Mark Jeffreys, “Dr. Daedalus and His Minotaur: Mythic Warnings about Genetic
Engineering from J. B. S. Haldane, François Jacob, and Andrew Niccol's
Gattacta ,” Journal of Medical Humanities 22 (2001): 137-152. (The title is
somewhat misleading as Haldane employed the myth to celebrate biological
engineering, not condemn it.)
25. Mark B. Adams, “Last Judgment: The Visionary Biology of J. B. S.
Haldane,” Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2000): 463-468.
26. See Jon Turney, Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics, and Popular
Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 102. See also Adams,
“Last Judgment,” 462.
27. Russell, Icarus , 5.
28. Ibid., 49.
29. Ibid., 51-52.
30. See Turney, Frankenstein's Footsteps , 102, 114.
31. J. B. S. Haldane, New Paths in Genetics (New York: Harper and Brothers,
1942), 36-37, and Everything Has a History (London: Allen and Unwin, 1951),
287. James Tabery pointed out Haldane's apparent change of heart and cited