Primary sources in the history of social thought (Kama Sutra, eugenics, sexology)#4
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From Project Gutenberg's Sociology shelf, curated hard against a shelf that is mostly Victorian and Edwardian advice manuals. An agent kept the works of genuine argument and an adversarial reviewer (with web checks) corrected it: the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (Burton's 1883 English of the classical Sanskrit treatise on kama, dated to its ~3rd century composition, not the translation); Popenoe and Johnson's Applied Eugenics (1918), the canonical American eugenics textbook; Chapple's The Fertility of the Unfit (1903); and Moll's The Sexual Life of the Child (1909), a founding text of sexology. The reviewer caught a wrong Gutenberg id (Chapple is 16254, not 16135) and demoted Holbrook's Homo-Culture as a prenatal-advice manual rather than argued theory; the ~40 prescriptive manuals, tracts and reports were dropped. These enter on the same principle that holds the Manusmriti: a library of the history of thought keeps the primary texts of movements whose conclusions are now rejected, as objects of study, not endorsement, with neutral description, dated to their own era. /about#sources states this plainly. Corpus: 949 works, 9,124 chapters; clean (zero boilerplate); search.db rebuilt (767,729 paragraphs). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ary sources) First-run download points at corpus-2026-06-11c (949 works). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A studied addition from Project Gutenberg's Sociology shelf, curated against the principle that a library of the history of thought holds the primary texts of movements whose conclusions are now rejected — as objects of study, not endorsement, the same basis on which it already holds the Manusmriti.
Four kept (of 45 on the shelf): the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (Burton's English of the classical Sanskrit treatise, dated to its ~3rd-century composition); Popenoe and Johnson's Applied Eugenics (1918), the canonical American eugenics textbook; Chapple's The Fertility of the Unfit (1903); and Moll's The Sexual Life of the Child (1909), a founding text of sexology.
Dropped (~40): the shelf is overwhelmingly Victorian and Edwardian prescriptive advice — marriage and health manuals, the four-volume Eugenic Marriage household guide, temperance tracts, sex-education pamphlets, committee reports. A curation agent applied the argued-theory-vs-how-to test and an adversarial reviewer corrected it: it caught a wrong Gutenberg id (Chapple is 16254) and demoted Holbrook's Homo-Culture as a prenatal-advice manual rather than theory.
These are presented with neutral description, dated to their own era, each linking to its Gutenberg page. /about#sources states the inclusion principle plainly.
Corpus: 949 works, 9,124 chapters; clean (zero boilerplate), search.db rebuilt. MCP 0.2.2 points at the corpus-2026-06-11c release.
Merging deploys falsafa.ai.
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