IMPROVING THE HUMAN RACE.
To perfect the human race, a doctor proposes (says an English paper) to kill the weak, build up the strong, regelate marriage according to hygiene, educate the matrimonially inclined, abolish' the selfsupporting woman. These are the steps, in the opinion of a certain Dr. Denison, to bring the human race to perfection or near to it. But here stands the most notable ©lank in the Denison platform : — "Possible limited use by the State of painless death, without the knowledge of dying, in order to rid society of the useless and harmful Hves.' , Dr; Denison censures his profession for so advancing in the healing art as to prolong feeble ,fives, suspend the law "of natural selection and permit the weak to propagate their kind/ . He thinke we are getting to be co very civilised and intelligent that we are in danger of losing health. Too much mental development, he thinks, injures the physical powers and favours sterility. So we must refrain from much further progress along this line. Then, too, the self-supporting woman must go, because the work ehe is doing is unfitting her for motherhood.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11086, 3 October 1901, Page 5
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