Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Paul Popenoe

Born: October 16, 1888
Died: June 19, 1979 (aged 90)
Bio: Paul Bowman Popenoe was an American agricultural explorer, eugenicist, influential advocate of the compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill and the mentally disabled, and the father of marriage counseling in the United States.
Known for:
- Applied eugenics (1918)
- Can this Marriage be Saved? (1960)
- Date growing in the Old World and the New (1913)
- Problems of Human Reproduction (1926)
- DATE GROWING IN THE OLD WORLD






