Page 647 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

lished his book, Man the Unknown, 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 eu-
thanasia 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 enor-

mous 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 lu-
natics. 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 cannot go on trying to separate the responsible from the irresponsible, pun-
ish the guilty, spare those who although having committed a crime, are thought to be morally innocent.

We are not capable of judging men. However the community must be protected against troublesome
and dangerous elements.

How can this be done? Certainly not by building larger and more comfortable prisons, just as real health will
not be promoted by larger and more scientific hospitals. In Germany the Government has taken energetic
measures against the multiplication of inferior types, the insane and criminals. The ideal solution would be

to eliminate all such individuals as soon as they proved dangerous.

Meanwhile criminals have to be dealt with effectively. Perhaps prisons should be abolished. They could be

replaced by smaller and less expensive institutions. The conditioning of petty criminals with the whip or
some more scientific procedure, followed by a short stay in hospital would probably suffice to insure order.
Those who have [committed more serious crimes] ... should be humanely and economically disposed of in

Eugenicists invented spe-
cial terms with no place in
medical literature. For ex-
ample, members of other
races or the mentally ill
were diagnosed as having
a "weak mental state" and
were later left to die.
Right: mentally ill
Americans of the time

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