THE RACE DOOMED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22672, 10 September 1935, Page 9

THE RACE DOOMED

A SALVATIONIST'S OPINION CALVIN AND DARWIN BLAMED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, September 8. Commissioner Lamb, of the Salvation Army, addressing the British Association, declared: " The race is doomed. Calvin and Darwin destroyed us. Subtle reasonings on predestination and natural selection have so seized thinkers and the mass of the people that they acquiesce in an economic system throwing 25 per cent, of the workers on the scrap heap. They tolerate housing and overcrowding, which are responsible # for dangerous sex stimulation, resulting in breeding at the wrong end. The fittest are not surviving, as war destroys the best. Unemployment lowers physical, spiritual and moral standards. We have the right to expect scientists, especially engineers and eugenists, to find a way of escape We cannot hold an Empire in which the population is so ill-distributed, in the face of pressure from Italy, Germany, China, and Japan. Nations which deliberately destroy food and pay a premium to producers not to produce while millions are underfed and poorly clad cannot survive. Scientists must reconcile individualism —formerly our glory—with collectivism,, which is now a political necessity."