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| | Bénedict-Auguste Morel (1809 - 1873) |
 | | Benedict Augustin Morel (1809-1873), a French doctor, published Traite des degenerescence physique, et intellectuelles et morales de l'espece humaine in which he argued that disparate illnesses, physical, intellectual, and moral, are all caused by a single process: degeneration. |
 | | Morel and other degenerationists have been accused of complicity in the holocaust because of their emphasis on hereditary, incurable, degenerative processes in families and in races, and their zeal to prevent degenerates from reproducing. |
 | | While ideas of degeneracy and racial purity were essential components of the Nazi extermination campaigns, Morel's contemporaries viewed him as a kind enlightened man. He did recommend incarceration for degenerates, but he advocated the creation of comfortable mountain asylums where they could live unrestrained. |
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