DEGENERATES.

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DEGENERATES.

NEED FOR CHECK URGED. 'BT CABLB—PRBBS ABSOCIATIOH-COPTRIOfiT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND tl.i- CABUS 4SSOCIATIOS.) LONDON, January 3. "Great Britain will shortly be forced to face the compulsory checking of degenerates," said Dr. E. W. Macßride, Professor of Zoology at the Imperial College of Science, South Kensington, speaking at an educational conference. "If we continue encouraging the growth of the thriftless, ana penalising the enterprising, our civilisation is certain to succumb, he said. "It is now known that mental deficiency and other disabilities are due to general weakness, and the inroads of germs. A hopeful feature is that if the genps weaken and people got healthier surroundings, the weakness apparently passes off. , - "For example,, prize boars, witn shortened snouts, half toothless, and feeble-legged, admirable for bacon, put really horrifying as dropsical cripples, will regain their long snouts and teeth if they run wild. That encourages the belief that if numbers of the dwellers in the British cities were transported, to the wilder parts of Australia and left to their own recources they would, in two or three generations, develop into Guito respectable people."