NATIONAL DETERIORATION AND ITS CAUSE.
Garibaldi, in a letter to the Secolo, calls attention in his usual style to one of the greatest evils attendant upon the system of universal military service. Of all the immigrants landing in New York, it is declared that “ the most deformed, ricketty, dirty, wretched, and thievish are the Italians.” Too true, says Garibaldi, and why ? Because the Royal Cuirassiers, the Royal Carabinieri, the soldiers of all arms, the gendarmes, the police, and the monks must all be picked men. The flower of the population being thus doomed to compulsory or voluntary celibacy, “what remains to propagate the Italian race ? The. narrow.chested the ricketty, the scrofulous, the deformed, the lame, and all that sort of, people.” Garibaldi only repeats thewarning which Haeckel years ago addressed to the rulers of Germany, when he told' them that the principle of universal military service might strengthen a nation for a time ; but it ensured its ultimate degeneracy by practically decreeing “ the survival of the unfittest;”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2487, 10 March 1881, Page 4
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167NATIONAL DETERIORATION AND ITS CAUSE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2487, 10 March 1881, Page 4
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