DISREGARD OF EUGENIC METHODS
WARNING TO AMERICA
(By Eleetrlo Telegraph.—Copyright.) .Australian and N.Z. Cable Assooindon.) OTTAWA, Aug. 15. Professor William McDougall, the noted psychologist of Harvard University, speaking before the British Eugenics Educational Society at Toronto declare ed: “As I watch American people speeding daily with invincible optimism down the path that leads to destruction, I seem to be watching one of the greatest tragedies of history.” In his opinion the condition of the United States will-be desperate if the bulk of the people cannot be brought to see the situation the nation is in owing to disregard of eugenic methods in maintaining and improving its stock. These methods, according to Professor McDougall, are birth control, selective immigration, and wages graded according to sizes of families.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 August 1924, Page 5
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