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Racist authors in the 30's wrote of the "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic race", meaning they included the Irish in their catalogue of approved races. The inconsistency combined with the dogmatism of scientific racism is an underused argument against it.

Brigham, another prominent eugenicist, also repudiated his former views with all of its implications.

Continued:
"Even by 1928, as any pediatrician could have told him, a sound body was still the first prerequisite for a sound mind, and the developmental biology of poverty was as much a factor in education as the quality of its teaching techniques."

"As with most other extremists, when Goddard shattered the shackles of one old absolute dogma he replaced them with an equally all-or-nothing dogma: the ideal education as the solution to the learning and behavioral problems of man."

Around 1928, Goddard had a change of heart and recanted his previous defense of eugenics.

Harold Laski, another socialist, was beaming at the prospect of sterilizing retards.

Sidney Webb and Karl Marx believed in eugenics, apparently.

I think I've heard the term M. B. Types before.

Of course, Davenport denied free will.

Dr. Abraham Meyerson, himself an eugenicist, claimed that mental illness was seldom hereditary, that the mentally ill had fewer and not more children, and that studying it should be left to experts and not field workers. He even called Davenport out by name.

Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn stated that the (methodologically botched) Army intelligence tests were worth the loss of life in World War I.

"Theodora [Justinians wife] is also remembered for sponsoring legislation to help women by stopping forced prostitution and giving women greater rights in divorce and in owning property."

"Gibbon suggested long ago that Christianity played a big role in the fall of Rome because it sapped the fighting spirit of its people. This is nonsense. The eastern half of the Roman Empire was more passionately Christian than the west, and it did not fall in 476."

"Outside of the mosque is the tomb of Mehmed, the conqueror who made Constantinople a Muslim governed city. By associating himself with Constantine’s resting place, Mehmed strengthened his claim to be Kayser-i-Rum—that is, Caesar of Rome. So potent was the reputation of the man who remade the Roman Empire in a new image."

"With the end approaching, he [Constantine] was baptized. It was common at the time to postpone baptism to near death, in order to minimize the danger of sinning after baptism. He died on May 22, 337. Constantine had three surviving sons by Fausta."

Constantine both increased taxes and instituted a new gold-based currency to end inflation.

"Constantine was no friend to the Jews. Yet by Roman standards, he was not the worst of enemies, either. He didn’t destroy the temple like Vespasian and Titus or bathe Judea in blood like Hadrian. Nor did he destroy Jewish communal life, which continued to thrive both in the land of Israel and in the Diaspora."
Constantine also decreed that when slaves of Jews converted to Christianity, they became free.

"After the defeat of Licinius, Constantine became more openly Christian. In 326, when he visited Rome to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of becoming emperor, for the first time he refused to sacrifice to Jupiter, which led to protest."

Constantine dispossessed pagan temples, but he also increased spending to the poor. He's a more complex figure than other scholars admit.

"Even after 312, Constantine engaged in murder and bloodshed that would make even a pagan blush. But conversion does not make someone perfect. Constantine undoubtedly spread the gospel and made the church splendid and safer. Surely that made him a Christian."