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Mason,
 
I did not refer to Dewey as a eugenicist, only that he looked up the Great  
War as "cleansing."
 
I withdraw nothing re Commons.  As an example, see his Races and  
Immigrants:
 
"In the entire circuit of the globe those races which have developed under  
a tropical sun are found to be indolent and fickle. From the standpoint of  
survival of the fittest, such vices are virtues, for severe and continuous  
exertion under tropical conditions bring prostration and predisposition to  
disease. Therefore, if such races are to adopt that industrious life which 
is a  second nature to races of the temperate zones, it is only through some 
form of  compulsion. The negro could not possibly have found a place in 
American industry  had he come as a free man..." (p.136).
 
In addition, his anti-Semitism was well known.  Mark Perlman noted  that 
his father, Selig, was referred to as "Commons' Jew."
 
Charles McCann

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