THE SOCIALLY UNFIT
EXTINCTION ADVOCATED. BISHOP’S STARTLING ADDRESS. DIVINE PLAN INTERPRETED. (Received 10.32 a.m.) LONDON, February 17. Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, in a startling address to the Eugenics Society, urged that prevention, of the survival of the socially unfit was in accordance with the plan whereby God had brought humanity so far on the road. He said it must pause grave concern to every religious man and woman that feeble-minded were disastrously prolific. Environment was no longer destroying the unfit.- God was making man increasingly master of his own fate, hut we must not make an environment in which feeble-minded criminals and the insane could multiply rapidly. If it could be shown that the fecundity of the feeble-minded was .a barrier to the extension of spiritual perception, Christians would approve of the .repression of such fecundity.— A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 18 February 1926, Page 5
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