EUGENICS CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 60, 29 July 1912, Page 5

EUGENICS CONFERENCE.

THE PRINCIPLE OF EVOLUTION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, July 26. Major Darwin, in his presidential address at the Eugenics Conference, said that eugenie3 was the practical application of the principle of evolution. The nation first applying conscious selection instead of the blind forces of natural selection would surely win all international competitions. RACE SUICIDE. FRUITS OF THE BESANT DOCTRINE. Received 27, 5.5 p.m. London, July 27. At the Eugenics Congress, Mr. Hoffmann, Insurance Statistician for the United States, taking New England as an example, said that half the population were of foreign extraction. Fewer native than foreign-born women reared families, with the result that unless the better classes of Americans realised their duty, British ideas and iastitutions had . no chance of survival. Dr. Leslie, speaking from his experience of the East End ot London, confirmed Mr. Hoffman's warning. The foreignborn population was increasing out of all proportion to the native born. Dr. Drvsdale stated that since the promulgation of the Besant-Bradlaugh doctrine thirty years ago, there had been twenty-five million fewer births.