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which was translated into nine different languages within three
years. In his book's final chapter, "The Remaking of Man," Carrel

pointed to eugenics and euthanasia as alleged solutions to social
problems. He said that the mentally ill and criminals should be
killed at small euthanasia centers equipped with appropriate
gasses, and sought to justify murder in the following words:
There remains the unsolved problem of the immense number of
defectives and criminals. They are an enormous burden for the
part of the population that has remained normal. As already
pointed out, gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons
and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and
lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings?
The abnormal prevent the development of the normal. This fact
must be squarely faced. Why should society not dispose of the
criminals and the insane in a more economical manner? We can-

Dr. Alexis Carrel, a
supporter of the
eugenic perversion

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