EUGENICS COMPARED.
SAVAGE AND CIVILISED. THE FINER. AIfIMAL. . AITD THE FLFTEB iTWTT.TVR.Trw (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copjri-': i (Becetved 10 a.m.) LONDON, February 13. Lecturing before the Clinical Society, the famous surgeon, Sir William. Arbuthnot Lane, declared that the question whether civilisation was a failure always arose -when people considered its disas-. trous effect on natives. Merchant seamen taught natives to drink to excess, and they also disseminated disease, while missionaries introduced a new moral code, these influences causing , degeneration and degradation, he said. The native was an infinitely finer animal than the civilised. T-Hs men were great fighters and skilful hunters. His women produced vigorous, healthy children, owing to their study of birth control and eugenics as distinct from the methods of civilisation- ■ On the contrary, British people were[ enslaved because the authorities insisted j on their ignorance of eugenics on certain 1 lines of treatment, this resulting in the production of weak children. — ("Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1926, Page 9
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