THE BULLDOG BREED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 300, 16 December 1912, Page 6

THE BULLDOG BREED.

British: DEGENERATION CLAIMED. LONDON, December 10Sir James Barr, president of the British Medical Association, delivered an address before the Eugenics Education Society yesterday. He said that practical eugenics were a matter of urgent and primary importance, but the country was at present governed by mawkish sentimentality and gross ignorance, and the subject had never been held in high opinion by many legislators. That breed seemed to be degenerated into a lot of garrulous fools who were dear at any j.rice, let alone £400 a year. He looked upon such fools as mere cmnberers of the ground and obstacles in the path of progress, obstacles whdeh should be removed if Great Britain wanted to maintain her position among the nations. Great Britain would have to raise a healthy, intelligent and self-reliant race. Nowadays the submerged te-nth wsw adding to the population a race of cowardly hooligans. The unfit were the best cared for, and there w no encouragement to the healthy man to have a large family.