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FUTURE OF THE RACE

SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT. WARNING NOTE SOUNDED. (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, November 24. Professor Huxley, lecturing at the Science Guild, said that there was no sacred right of a child to be born. Philanthropy had conspired with modern medicine and sanitation to preserve the ever-increasing numbers of individuals who, in less civilised times, would have died off in youth and infancy. There was a real danger, he continued, that the quality cf the population might be changed for the worse by the survival of the unfit. The low-quality mind was especially serious. We had not thought seriously of the future of the race, and 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 of quality. We would have to face a system of social mating pontrol. Those who spoke of the inalienable right of personal liberty in that respect were talking bunkum.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 9

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FUTURE OF THE RACE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 9

FUTURE OF THE RACE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 9

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