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16 See William Hallock Johnson, The Free-will Problem in Modern Thought, Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy, Psychology, and Education, vol. 10, no. 2 (New York: Macmillan, 1903). See also his Stone Lectures at Princeton University, published as Humanism and Christian Theism (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1931)

17 Walter A. Maier, For Better Not for Worse: A Manual of Christian Matrimony, 3rd ed., rev. (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1939), vi; cf. Paul L. Maier, A Man Spoke, A World Listened: The Story of Walter A. Maier (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1980), 110-26, 164-215.

18 See Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 113-28; 164-75.

19 Maier, For Better Not for Worse, 232.

20 Ibid. 232-33. 21 Ibid, 233.

22 Ibid., 233-36. 23 Ibid, 236.

24 Ibid

25 lbid, 237. See G. K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils (New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1927).

26 Ibid

27 Ibid, 238-39. 28 Ibid, 239. 29 [bid, 240-42. 30 Ibid, 242.

31 Ian Robert Dowbiggin, Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), viii.

DENNIS L DURST

Dennis L Durst, MDiv, is a Ph.D. candidate completing his degree in Theological Studies (Historical Theology) at Saint Louis University. He holds an M.Div. in Theology and Philosophy from Lincoln Christian Seminary in Lincoln, Illinois. He has served in campus ministries on the campuses of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Dennis L Durst, MDiv, is a Ph.D. Candidate completing his degree in Theological Studies (Historical Theology) at Saint Louis University. He holds an M.Div. in Theology and Philosophy from Lincoln Christian Seminary in Lincoln, Illinois. He has served in campus ministries on the campuses of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.