Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement by Christine Rosen Oxford. 296 pp. $35.00 Charles Darwin was a sickly man whose letters reveal much anguish over the “infirmity” he feared he had passed on to his offspring. Two of his children died young, and the others were in...

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