The Life Extension Institute was an organization formed in the United States in 1913 with the philanthropic goal of prolonging human life through hygiene and disease prevention.[1]
A major project of the institute which fulfilled its mission to disseminate knowledge was publication of the book How to Live, Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science,[3] now in the public domain.
The institute was a proponent of eugenics including sterilization of grossly "unfit" individuals:
It depends largely upon the action of those now upon the earth, who are now making their choices of marriage, as to whether the races of the future shall be physical, mental or moral weaklings, or whether they shall be physically brave and hardy, mentally broad and profound, and morally sterling.
To summarize: There are three main lines along which eugenic improvement of the race may be attained:
Education of all people on the inheritability of traits;
segregation of defectives so that they may not mingle their family traits with those on sound lines;
sterilization of certain gross and hopeless defectives, to preclude the propagation of their type.
— Irving Fisher and Eugene Lyman Fisk How to Live, Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
^"NATIONAL SOCIETY TO CONSERVE LIFE; Life Extension Institute Formed to Teach Hygiene and Prevention of Disease. LARGE CAPITAL BEHIND IT Ex-President Taft, Chairman; Prof. Irving Fisher, E.E. Rittenhouse, and Others Direct It". The New York Times. December 30, 1913.
^Fisher, Irving; Eugene Lyman Fisk (1916). How to Live, Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science, Authorized by and Prepared in Collaboration with the Hygiene Reference Board of the Life Extension Institute, Inc (8th ed.). New York; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company. ISBN978-1-59605-035-8. OCLC 146204564.
^Fisher, Irving; Fisk, Eugene Lyman (October 21, 2006). How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science.
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