MAKING THE UNFIT FITTER
"We have to reraember than in securing a fit race in days gone by Nature did a large part oi«the work," said Viscount Dawson of Fenu, speaking in the House of Lords on the Physical Training and Hecreation Bill. "She killed ofl: the unfit, and only the tit survived. But we are gradually undoing Nature's eiforts by our developed sense of greater humanity and a more acute conscience toward those who are in distress and those who are weak. But if we are to continue that policy of looking after the weaker brethren — and I cannt conceive anybody doubting that that is a right policy — we must reraember that we are at the same time undoing Nature's plan for discarding the weaklings of the race. It there- z fore becomes doubly important for us to set up a policy which will create fitness.'-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 180, 17 August 1937, Page 6
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