FUTURE OF THE RACE.
SERIOUS THOUGHT NEEDED.
ENGLISH PROFESSOR'S VIEWS.
Australian ana N.Z. Cabli Association. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 24.
In the course oi' a lecture to memoers of the Science Guild Professor Huxley said there was no sacred right of a child to be born. Philanthropy had conspired vitli modern medicine and sanitation to preserve an ever-increasing number of individuals who, in less civilised times, diet! off in youth and infancy. There was a real danger that the quality of the population of the world might be changed for the worse by the survival of the unfit. A low quality of Bind was especially serious.
We had not thought seriously of the fnturs of the race, said Professor Huxley, but had allowed it to shift for itself, until we were becoming a scrub herd of mongrels.
Quantity was being encouraged by bonuses for large families at the expense cf quality. We would have to face a system of social mating and control. Those who spoke of the inalienable light of persons! liberty in that respect were talking nonsense
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19495, 26 November 1926, Page 11
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