GENESIS OF THE "UNDER-DOG"
9 Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, lecturing at the Greshani College, Loudon, recently on heredity, said that natural selection and variation had shown tho way to progress and mado it possible for each generation to "go one better." There were definito diameters that could be perpetuated by careful selection.
"What we have got to do to-day," ho continued, "is to educate the public to realise that those who are at tho bottom of tho ladder are really there because of poor stock." It„ was the duty of tho nation to raise them. It was our duty to place the proper environment before those who deserved it. Our returning soldiers ought to have every help to establish themselves on the. land and rear their families. There shbuld bo moro modifications in regard to tho incomo tax. It was all too seldom realised that a great many people who woro inebriates, who committed crimes, who were vicious, and who had gouo into places for tho mentally dofectivo wftro the victims of a poor stock. Sympathy to-day should bo based on eugenic grounds.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 167, 9 April 1919, Page 7
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182GENESIS OF THE "UNDER-DOG" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 167, 9 April 1919, Page 7
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