 In those days, eugenics was popular among many progressives of all stripes, including progressive religious denominations. It was a kind of techno-positivism of its day, a good reminder that our beliefs about perfectibility through technology often lead to results that future generations find shocking. But Holmes was a eugenicist, and he upheld those laws. The only thing to say in his defense as a justice is he upheld laws he liked, like the eugenic laws, or he upheld laws that he