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He became a prolific freelance writer and journalist, with strong views on many subjects. He became known in particular as an advocate of eugenics: in 1907 he was influential in launching the
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He predicted the use of atomic power, "perhaps not for hundreds of years". He favoured the education of women, but primarily so they should become better mothers. In
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In 1910, his marriage fell apart after his wife had a nervous breakdown. During this time, their daughter Mary, was sent to live with
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Saleeby did confide to friends that the idea behind it was to stimulate the nudist movement. Saleeby founded a
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father and an English mother. His father, Elias G. Saleeby, was a founder and head of schools in
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Physical deterioration : being mainly an indictment against the cities of the time
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and 'Immorality'
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He died on 9 December 1940 from heart failure at Apple Tree, Aldbury, near
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was living at her family's cottage in Sussex. He became Mary's tutor.
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in Britain in the 1920s exhorting the nudist lifestyle in his book
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Pliley, Jessica R.; Kramm, Robert; Fischer-Tiné, Harald (2016).
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in 1924. Although the Sunlight League did not overtly promote
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The World of the Edwardian Child: as seen in Arthur Mee's
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Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School
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Sussex
Aldbury, Hertfordshire
Edinburgh University
Eugenics
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
FRSE
eugenics
Lebanese Christian
Mount Lebanon
Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Edinburgh University
Doctor of Medicine
resident
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
York
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Alexander Russell Simpson
Thomas Clouston
Sir William Turner
Daniel John Cunningham
Eugenics Education Society
Arthur Mee
The Children's Encyclopædia
racialist
World War I
The Sunlight League
nudism
nudist club
Tring

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