TO PREACH EUGENICS.
The Eugenic and 'Education. Society, just formed in London, is : the first organised effort in England to, improve tho human race by teaching tho -scientific'laws of heredity. This- liiovoment was begun 'five year's ago by prominent men lsu<?h as Headmaster >Eas-t-on, ,Dcau" WelMoii; and Lord Lytton. - It. was explained .-at- the first meeting- of'the society that it- would strive to educate the young-'in matters of sex, and to bring about- 1 such "a-state, of public opinion as will prevent , liiarriago of degenerates or persons aftlictcdivith hereditary diseases. There will be lectures, a publication propaganda, and school instruction. . '•'.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 98, 18 January 1908, Page 11
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100TO PREACH EUGENICS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 98, 18 January 1908, Page 11
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