WORLD’S FUTURE
WARNING BY SCIENTIST. LONDON, Sep. 11 < “The world’s futre is imperilled Gy the decay of the average human intelligence.. due. to.brains dying put,” declared Dr J. J. Hurst, at the British Association’s Conference to-day. The rapid ; decrease of the hi.ithjrate among intelligent families in America .and England, he said, had | advanced to European countries. The lowering of the population’s intcllitfence index, which should he in.oreasinsr, was so rapid as to endanger the .safety of civilisation. : Statesmen’s most important problem was the'maintenance of a minimum intelligence index among the general population. . i State action on biological lines was necessary, possibly through a scheme of .famjlv allowances to intelligent :parents of, all classes, thus encouraging i the , production ’ of high-grade , offspring.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1933, Page 8
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121WORLD’S FUTURE Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1933, Page 8
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