FUTURE OF HUMANITY
‘SCRUB HERD OF MONGRELS’ PRESERVATION OF THE UNFIT. VIEWS OF A PROFESSOR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright, London, Nov. 24. Professor Huxley, lecturing at the Science Guild, said there was no sacred right of a child to be born. Philanthropy had conspired with modern medicine and sanitation to preserve ever increasing numbers of individuals who in less civilised times died off in youth and infancy. There was a real danger that the quality of the population might lie changed for the worse by the survival of the unfit. The low rpiality mind was especially serious. We had net thought seriously of the future race and had allowed it to shift for itself until we were becoming a scrub herd of mongrels. Quantity was being encouraged -by bonuses for large families at the expense of quality. We would have to face a system of social mating control. Those who spoke of the inalienable right of personal liberty in that respect were talking bunkum.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1926, Page 6
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164FUTURE OF HUMANITY Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1926, Page 6
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