ZULUS AND EUGAENICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

ZULUS AND EUGAENICS.

The apostles of eugenics advocate less arbitrary methods of improving the race than were followed by the Zulus a century ago, but they can admire the results that were secured by the black men. The Zulus are physically the best developed people in the world, and the reason is that during scores of generations before the coming of the white mam all weakly and deformed children were killed at birth. A correspondent of Public Opinion states that the slaughter of the weaklings still proceeds in the outlying portions of Zululand, and no observant person can fail to be impressed by the physique and almost uniform good health of the black men and women. Civilisation, of course, will not permit any such process of elimination, and the product of the white man's city 7s in ■striking contrast to that of the Zulu's kraal. "At present," writes Mr. H. G. Wells, "the afbyss is ,i hot-bed breeding undesirable and too often fearfully mis> erable children. Under the really very horrible morality of to-d:iy, l/te spectacle of a mean-spirited, under-sized, little man, quite incapable of earning a decent living for himself, married "to some under-fed, ignorant, iIJ-snaped, plain and diseased little wwin. snd guilty < >f the lives of ten or twelve ugly, ailing children, is regarded as an extremely ; .,lj. fying spectacle, ami the two parents consider their reproduction excesses as giving them a distinct claim upn Uss fecund and more prosperous people." The chief result of the white man's plan, says Mr. Wells, is "to lure into this world a vast multitude 'if !ii.t!r ::r.;:h fnr whom there is neither sufficier, 1 food, unlove, nor schools, nor nnv j"-nsp»ct at all in life but the insu:'.' : c!"nt' bre'ud of s. i vitude." The corn =--ti ; !mil i)s ].- s ;f i.i,. "savage, barbaric, ignorant, heathen Zulu" has not a mor humane wav of dealing with a cr" ■' linn hi< white brother has. The will not find it easy to answer the question.