EUGENICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 39, 16 October 1913, Page 4

EUGENICS.

Dr. Neville Figgis, Bishop of Frodsham, discussing the tendency known as Eugenics, considers that it lias the merit that it testifies to a profound dissatifaction with the race of man as it now is, and a belief that it cannot l>e.bettered if things go on as they arc. The world, in fact, is a "city of destruction" unless something or other

happens to save' it. Of course he does not claim that the people who are sharing in these movements are Chris-; tian even in sentiment, nut holds that they all share ose characteristic with evangelical religion. They have'given lip the "natural in:.-:i." They do not believe that lie will progress inevitably. All think that there is something radically wrong with things as they arc, and that this corruption is something more than the result of outside circumstance—that it is rooted in human nature. All desire new worlds for old; they look not only for an improvement in the individual, but for the definite production of a family of noble bearing, heroic resolve, able to do and to endure, always ready to sacrifice immediate pleasure-for that ideal of manly splendour inherent in the race.