The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED TEE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912. THE NEW SCIENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 73, 19 November 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED TEE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912. THE NEW SCIENCE.

The new science of Eugenics is upheld in the “Fortnightly Review” by Mr M. Crackanthorpe, K.C., who concludes that Socialists apd churchmen are the chief opponents of the aims of the science. Believing as they profess to do that, all men should, and might, he made equal in respect both of status and means, Socialists see in the theory of heredity a most embarrassing factor and accordingly show open'hostility. For. the regeneration of mankind they rely exclus’vely on improved surroundings. The writer quotes a representative Socialist -as stating, “Give the industrial community houses worth living in, work-worth executing, adequate remuneration, appreciable leisure, enjoyable recreation, and| reliable employment, and the habitual drunkard, the criminal, the tramp, and the feeble-minded will become as extinct as the dodo.” Mr Crackantho'rpe’s comment on this is: “How delightfully simple this sounds, and how impossible it is. What complete ignorance of human nature, its temptations and weaknesses it shows.” He proceeds to show that spiritually-mind-ed people often made the mistake of supposing that religion and science are antagonistic to each other, and he urges willing self-sacrifice in the present generation in order that burdens and disabilities may not be laid on posterity. In the main, he is a strong advocate of eugenic methods and measures for the world’s betterment.