The Golden Age, “Pedagogical Psychology”
“For aments more than one authority recommends asexualization. From the eugenics standpoint this would be advisable; for such persons have less control of their instincts than normal people, are prolific, and almost sure to produce offspring with their own deficiency. However, none of these suggestions are of permanent value.”
A signed contributor's article on child psychology and teacher training. The paragraph deals with "subnormal children" and follows a suggestion that cretinism can be treated with thyroid extract. The writer immediately adds that none of these measures is of lasting value and turns to Christ as "the greatest psychologist of the Christian era".
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Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, Pedagogical Psychology
Confidence note. Read page by page from the item’s djvu.xml on 19 September 2026 and re-checked independently. The passage stands on the leaf mapped to printed page 71, whose running head reads “November 8, 1922”; the article begins on the leaf mapped to page 70 under the heading and by-line, which the scan renders “Pedagogical Psychology [b]y EH. E. Cofey”. Only the surname can be read with confidence — the OCR is consistent with either “E. H. Coffey” or “H. E. Coffey” — so no initials are asserted.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item “Magazines: The golden age, 1922”; printed page numbers from the item's page_numbers.json checked against the running head “November 8, 1922”.
Notes. The passage concerns people the article calls “aments” and “subnormal children”, not any racial group.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-race-ga-1922-1108-coffey-asexualization