QUANTITY, BUT NOT QUALITY
POPULATION TENDENCIES PROFESSOR HUXLEY’S WARNING. Australian and N.Z Gable Association. LONDON, November 24. Professor Julian Huxley, lecturing to the Science Guild, said that there was no sacred right of a child to be born. Philanthropy liad conspired with modern medicine and sanitation to preserve in over-increasing numbers individuals who, in less civilised times, died olf 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 tjie future of the race, but had allowed it to shift for itself until we were now becoming a “scrub herd of mongrels.’’ Quantitiy was being encouraged by honuscs 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 were talking bunkum.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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163QUANTITY, BUT NOT QUALITY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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