MAN AT HIS BEST
IN THE SAVAGE STATE. WHERE CIVILISATION FAILS. EMINENT SURGEON’S VIEW. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Feb. 20" 10.55 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 19. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, lecturing before the .Clinical Society.,, declared that the question whether civilisation ovas a failure- always : a,rose when people considered -its disastrous effect on natives. Merchant seamen taught natives to drink to excess, and they also disseminated disease. The missionaries introduced a moral code, causing degeneration and degradation. ‘ ‘The ‘ native is an infinitely finer animal than the civilised,” said Sir William. “His men are great fighters and skilful hunters. His women produce vigorous and healthy children, owing to a study of birth control and eugenics as distinct from the methods of civilisation.”
“On the contrary,” he said, the British people were enslaved _ because the authorities insisted in their ignorance of eugenics on certain lines "'of treatment, resulting in the production of weak children.” Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 February 1926, Page 5
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