Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A Claim for Brazilian Progress

Upon returning from my trip to North America, I've developed an even stronger conviction in the benefits deriving from the science of eugenics. While in the United State I watched as the hands of white workers carried their society to progress and development. And these hands were not only white, but also commonly literate. This too can be the case for Rio de Janeiro if only we can continue to move our own society towards the way of science.

It is still hard for me to see how people could logically oppose positivism after cases such as the bubonic plague epidemic of 1899. If it was not for Oswaldo Cruz's brilliant work in the field of medicine, Rio would have mourned far more deaths than it did. Since then we have reached a point in our society where medicine has become a state funded, hence forth state supported, science. Yet, while we may be making progress in the areas of medical education and public health organizations, we continue to be blind to, what seems to me to be, an obvious source of ill in our society. All one must do is trace back to the origin of many cases where tuberculosis, venereal infections, and other aliments often arise and you will find them most prevalent in the impoverished population.

After reaching that conclusion, a well educated researcher will continue on and speculate as to why disease and infections seem to befall this group over another. Could the causation lie also in what is expressed as a hindrance, a national weakness, by both European and North American nations? Perhaps we fall victim to degeneration because of our mixture of races. When anthropologists from other forward progressing nations seek to provide an example of civilization that has failed due to "halfbreeds", they turn to us.

Let me further point you in the direction of crime. Some may be familiar with the work of Nina Rodrigues in the field of criminal medicine based off the Lombrosian theory, a scientific doctrine that states criminal behavior is hereditary and can be predicted through scientific research. By studying not only the evolution but also the development of violence within the black culture, science has proven white supremacy. Even without considering the many examples of progressive nations who exemplify white dominated societies, science can clearly reveal the benefits of pure society. And though our history will not allow for a completely pure nation of Brazilians, I am confident that Brazil need not remain a product of a misguided past.

Now, all that being said I wish to ask you, my fellow educated men, define how you wish Brazil to be regarded amongst our colleagues from overseas. And now ask yourself how you hope to deliver us into such a state of existence. In carrying on in this manner I do not wish to simply tell you what is and what is not, rather I wish to guide you so that you may come to form your own conclusions. I feel any educated individual, such as the ones composing this science bound organization, will reach very similar conclusions as I have. Education. Perhaps even more importantly than race, education must be more widely present.

I'm certain none of you are naïve to the growing arguments against the Aryan supremacy mindset. I'm even more confident in making the claim that we're all very familiar with the strong influence the Church still has on the people to the point that our modernized way of thinking is likely considered irrelevant. However I wish to simply end with the following statement. Though there are arguments against social Darwinism, despite the many examples of progressive moving nations that support such a philosophy as the one behind the desire to purify a nation, nothing can dispute the fact that in order for us to best access our wealth in natural resources we need to be able to employ a somewhat educated labor force. It is far more cost efficient to employ white immigrant labor workers who are more often than not literate, than it would be to try and educate and then employ black or mulatto, Brazilian born workers. Hence forth, regardless of one's stance on whitening Brazil, it is both cost efficient as well as economically logical to continue to bring in and encourage immigrant workers as a means to regain a level of respect and weight in the international system of progress.