EUGENICS AND EMOTIONS
In reply to a recent letter in The Post on "Eugenics and Emotions" Mr. T. A. Eagle has written more than the fiist correspondent's vague treatment of the subject is woith. In general, Mr. Eagle asks for less dioam and more business — a truce to academic and .armchair theory and a start with a commonsense plan of work. Heie is the principal passage in Mr. Eagle's lengthy, discursive comment: — "There are mixtures, penectly innocent separate, by nature irreconcilable, which, when mixed, react as poisons and kill each other. The world is full of books, and cursed by the mixtures, in foods, spiritual and material, we consume. We are damned because we won't teach the plain facts and do what is required to strip all the veneer and varnish and humbug away fionj. the solid wood of life and let the real material of the soul, in its natural shape, peep out and shine with its own eyea, and come aud go out o| its. Sivn _home, in it* ftjvft dj£uitjf t " : ~" "
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 3
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174EUGENICS AND EMOTIONS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 3
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