#caswell coggins

[picspammer]

I wake up, it's a bad dream No one on my side I was fighting But I just feel too tired to be fighting Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Happy anniversary to this single by Keane, released on this day in 2007

#very intense song #keane #keane band #a bad dream #under the iron sea #utis #i was today years old when i found out this single also has Enjoy the Silence <3 i loved that cover for so long. #caswell coggins #tom chaplin

[judgestarling]

A Paternity "Test" Based on the "Science of Eugenics": The Case of Abraham Lincoln

Dr. James Caswell Coggins (1865-1958) was the first President of Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College) in Wilson, North Carolina. His academic degrees consisted of a Bachelor of Arts from Milligan College and three law degrees. In 1940, he published a book entitled “The Eugenics of Abraham Lincoln,” in which he “irrefutably" established that the 16th President of the United States was of pure German-Scottish ancestry. In other words, that Abraham Lincoln’s father wasn’t his biological father.

According to Dr. Coggins, Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, was an intelligent woman, who in her youth was described as "a bold, reckless, daredevil kind of woman,” and later in life was said to have been "mild, tender, and intellectually inclined." Abraham Lincoln’s father, Thomas Lincoln, on the other hand, was a ne’er-do-well farmer and carpenter, who could neither read nor write.

In 1940, common lore dictated that intelligence was inherited from the father, while mothers contribute little to mental development. Dr. Coggins could not reconcile Abraham Lincoln’s “splendid intellect” with Thomas Lincoln’s “subnormal mind.” Nor he could bring himself to accept an alternative hypothesis, i.e., that Nancy Lincoln was the parent who endowed Lincoln with the brains. Finally, Coggins refused to entertain the idea that intellect has nothing to do with genetics.

So, he built a 284-page argument according to which Abraham Lincoln was not the son of Thomas Lincoln but was actually the illegitimate son of a Smoky Mountain man, Abram Enloe. This story was first propagated in an 1893 article in the Charlotte Observer by a writer who called himself a “Student of History,” and subsequent authors embellished the story further. Coggins's account was merely a late such reincarnation, distinguished from previous stories by the claim that the Abram Enloe paternity was the most consistent with the “Science of Eugenics.”

Coggins builds his case as a lawyer who defends a guilty party. He embellishes and regresses, he uses metaphors and old-wives’ tales, he attacks and retreats as if in an attempt to confuse the jury. His prose is sometimes endearing, sometimes annoying, and always irrelevant. He calls the orthodoxy of Abraham Lincoln’s paternity akin to believing that "Santa Claus comes down the chimney," while “the Truth is hiding behind the door laughing up his sleeve.”

He presents a caricature of the theory of evolution and then proceeds to refute it:

“It has often been contended, that Abraham Lincoln furnished a good example of the doctrine of evolution, as something great coming from almost nothing, and this case is the favorite proof text for this popular theory. But one does not need a high brow to be able to see the sophistry lying at the foundation of all such foolishness.”

Later, he uses “common-sense” analogies sprinkled with more than a modicum of racism to prove his thesis.

“But one can see the utter impossibility of "pouring out" a bucket of water, if there is no water in the bucket to start with. And if the bucket is full of milk it is impossible to pour out water. Now this gets right at the foundation of that whole high-sounding question that any schoolboy or schoolgirl can—in a few words—furnish an unanswerable puzzle to such teachers. It has been proved over and over again that something cannot come from nothing; and that any kind of egg must "evolute" the same kind of life, bird or animal, that produced the egg. It does not switch off to something different. The seed of the African Race can only produce Negroes; the seed of the Chinese can only produce the Chinese, and it takes the seed of the White Race to produce White People. This is an unchangeable law. Not only is this a fixed law as applied to the different Races of people, but this is also true of families and of different individuals.”

At this point in the narrative, he resorts to a story that was repeatedly told by eugenicists but whose veracity has since been proven doubtful. He compares Lincoln father to the low-grade family described in an 1877 book called "The Jukes," who for almost a century has been America's most despised family—a case study of dysfunction, a bunch of hereditary paupers, criminals, harlots, epileptics, and mental defectives, whose care had placed a huge financial burden on taxpayers. As a contrast, he describes the family of slaver Robert E. Lee which is described in the book as the epitome of virtue.

James Coggins book is an example of a pseudoscientific book written by a person who has no knowledge of the subjects he writes about. Such crooks and quacks abound in the modern era to such an extent that the findings of real scientists are drowned in an ocean of self-serving nonsense and the musings of snake oil peddlers.

James Caswell Coggins. 1940. The Eugenics of Abraham Lincoln. Crown Rights Book Company, Dahlonega, Georgia

[oppaiokudasai]

Music Video of the Day: Ordinary Day by Dolores O’Riordan (2007, dir by Caswell Coggins) Filmed in Prague. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

#Caswell Coggins #Dolores O&039;Riordan #Lisa Marie Bowman #Music #music video #music video of the day #Ordinary Day #review #song

[erovira]

'Belongings' - The Scottish Government from Charlie Herranz on Vimeo.

Director / Caswell Coggins Production / GreenRoom Films Exec Producer / Lucy Ball Production Manager / Katie Welsh Post Production / Lee Archer @ GreenRoom Films

[bradfordzone]

Coronation Street: Then, Now & Forever

Coronation Street: Then, Now & Forever

This Friday sees the launch of a major new campaign for Coronation Street. It takes the viewer back through 57 years of the soap opera, recreating iconic scenes as they were filmed in a celebration of Britain’s most popular continuing drama. Created from an idea by Executive Creative Director Tony Pipes and directed by Caswell Coggins, the film depicts iconic scenes from each decade of the soap,…

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#coronation street #itv

[ap-fashionmemories]

Hermès - 'The Sound of Hermès Silver' - Directed by Caswell Coggins

#Film #Hermès #Jewelry #Caswell Coggins

[danceunited]

"The Mourners", a short film by Caswell Coggins originally broadcast on Channel 4's Random Acts, featuring the London Performance Company and the BalletBoyz.

#the mourners #random acts #caswell coggins #short film #video #london performance company #balletboyz #channel 4 #contemporary dance

[commercialbreaks]

The Feeling - Sewn Directed By: Caswell Coggins

#The Feeling #Sewn #Caswell Coggins #Music #Video #Director

[theswampchannel]

#lilly allen #the fear #caswell coggins #pop #performance

[danceunited]

Channel 4 are screening tonight at 10.55pm - as part of their Random Acts series - a short film directed by Caswell Coggins that features the BalletBoyz. This is the first of two films recently shot in Bethnal Green, the second one featuring our London Performance Company.

Confinement is a film Caswell shot a year ago in Mile End, London.

#dance united #caswell coggins #mile end #balletboyz #random acts #bethnal green