SOCIAL DARWINISM WAS THE PINNACLE OF "ENLIGHTENMENT" SOCIAL SCIENCE THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN WORLD

SOCIAL DARWINISM WAS THE PINNACLE OF "ENLIGHTENMENT" SOCIAL SCIENCE THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN WORLD

as Nicholas Wade chronicled in A Troublesome Inheritance.  

The promotion of race science of humans merely followed logically, naturally, and reasonably from the best and most advanced progressive biological science of the time.

It is still going on even more rapidly now with genetic and genomic research, genetic modification, genetic treatments, etc. 

Holmes Sr. was hardly alone, or in anything but the best of academic and scientific company. 

"...While the report closely examines the role of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829, in the expulsion of Black students and promotion of race science within the University as Dean of Harvard Medical School, it says nothing about his son Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class of 1861..." DK 

All the best