SURVIVAL OF UNFIT
DANGER OF QUALITY OF POPULATION
SYSTEM OF SOCIAL MATING AND CONTROL
URGED BY PROFESSOR HUXLEY
Professor Huxley sajs there is a real danger that the quality of the population may be changed for the worse by the survival of the unfit Low quality in mind, he declares, to be especially serious.
by Telegraph.—press association Copyright.
London, November 21
Professor Huxley, lecturing to the Science Guild, said that there was no sacred right of a child to be born. Philanthropy had conspired with modern medicine and sanitation to preserve in ever-increasing numbers individuals who, in less civilised times, died off in youth and infancy. There was a real danger that the quality of the population might be changed for worse by the survival of the unfit. Low quality in mind was especially serious. We had not thought seriously of the future of the race, but had allowed it to shift for itself until we were now’ becoming a “scrub herd of mongrels.” Quantity was being encouraged by bonuses for large families at the expense of quality. We would have to face a system of social mating and control. Those who spoke of the inalienable right of personal liberty in this matter was talking bunkum.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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206SURVIVAL OF UNFIT Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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