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MARRIAGE PROBLEM FIT AND UNFIT Professor A. M. Low, eminent British scientist, has taken issue with the Somerset county tuberculosis officer over the question of marriage of persons suffering from hereditary disease. “It is absurd to lay down the law as to who shall marry and who shall not,” says Professor Low. “Make regulations controlling marriage and you do harm. Love is a mental attraction, and when two people are in love and marry, their minds benefit from the combination. “We should pay more attention to unborn thoughts than to unborn bodies. A great many valueable citizens have been diseased in some way. Athletic people, who are usually the soundest physically, do not alw r ays have good minds, and people who do good work are often unhealthy. “More allowance should be made, too, for surgery and corrective treatment. It does not follow that two people who are diseased at the time of their marriage will not be cured later. “It is a great error to stop people from marrying if they desire to do so. Of course you never will. Human nature is too strong and love is a greater force than the law,”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 3
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196“ABSURD” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 3
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