John Sagur
Title | John Sagur |
Year for Search | 1921 |
Authors | Nedram, [pseud.] |
Date Published | [1921] |
Publisher | Heath Cranton |
Place Published | London |
Annotation | A benevolent dictatorship based on the control of all electrical power brings about a world state and a peaceful world. An aristocracy of merit is imposed. A fold-out between 150 and 151 shows the structure of the dictatorship, from which the Master chooses his successor. Birth control and its positive effects (243-244). Eugenics: “lunatics and the feeble minded” could be destroyed (the word used in the text) if their parents requested, with “every possible precaution taken against misuse of power by the “Medical Council” (245-246), “Tainted persons” were not allowed to breed (246). |
Pseudonym | Nedram [pseud.] |
Holding Institutions | CU, BL, Bod, NLS |
Full Text | [1921] Nedram [pseud.]. John Sagur. London: Heath Cranton. 272 pp. CU, BL, NSL, O A benevolent dictatorship based on the control of all electrical power brings about a world state and a peaceful world. An aristocracy of merit is imposed. A fold-out between 150 and 151 shows the structure of the dictatorship, from which the Master chooses his successor. Birth control and its positive effects (243-244). Eugenics: “lunatics and the feeble minded” could be destroyed (the word used in the text) if their parents requested, with “every possible precaution taken against misuse of power by the “Medical Council” (245-246), “Tainted persons” were not allowed to breed (246). |