Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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