IS RACE DOOMED?
BY DARWIN AND CALVIN Warning at Science Congress (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, September 8. Commissioner Lamb, addressing the British Association, declared: “The race is doomed. Calvin and Darwin have destroyed us. Subt’e reasonings on predestination and natural selection have so seized thinkers and the mass of people that they acquiesce in an economic system throwing 25 per cent, of workers on the scrap heap. They tolerate housing and overcrowding which are responsible for the dangerous sex stimulation resulting in end. The fittest are no - surv .ing. as war destroys the bes-t'. “The unemployment lowers the phy ska’, spiritu: and moral standards. • ■ pect scientists < ? e'a: y e g : m •rs and eugenists, to find a w ’. ape. We cannot hold the Ei wl.irh th* 1 population is < ill di str jted i >he face of the pressure rom Italy, Germany China and Japan Nations which deliberately destroy food and pay a premium to producers not to produce, while millions are underfed and poorly clad, cannot’ survive. Scientists must reconcile individualism, formerly our glory, with the collectivism which is now a political necessity.”
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Grey River Argus, 10 September 1935, Page 5
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186IS RACE DOOMED? Grey River Argus, 10 September 1935, Page 5
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