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““Throughout the United States sermon contests were held on the subject of better breeding.””

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“They advocated for a more evangelical, popular faith that would appeal to thinking, working class folk and have domestic missions in poorer neighborhoods of industrial cities. Beard became involved in the education of the working class and advocated for greater opportunities for all ranks and ages. He wished for all to gain economic power. The board established missions in several”

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“In the early twentieth century, progressives, including a number of Unitarians, were very enthusiastic about eugenics. Kenneth MacArthur of the Federated Church in Sterling, Massachusetts, argued that decent Christians have a responsibility to use “every help which science affords” to prevent the “feeble-minded and wrong-willed from pouring their corrupt currents into the race”

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