EUGENICS.
Dr Neville Figgis, Bishop of Frodsiiam, discussing the tendency known as Eugenics, considers that it has the merit that it testifies to a profound dissatisfaction with the race of man as it now is, and a belief that it cannot be bettered if things go on as they are. 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 Christian even in sentiment, but holds that they all share one characteristic with evangelical religion. They have given up the "natural man." They do not believe that he will progress inevitably. All think that there is something radically wrong'with things as they are, 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 endure, always ready to sacrifice immediate pleasure for that ideal of manly splendour inherent in the race.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 October 1913, Page 4
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196EUGENICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 October 1913, Page 4
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