“A SCRUB HERD"
FUTURE HUMAN RACE NO SACRED RIGHT TO BIRTH (Elec. Tel. Copyright-Urnted Press Assn.j (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 2, 11 run.) LONDON, Nov. 24. Professor Huxley, lecturing at the Science Guild, said there was no sacred right of the child to be born. Philanthropy had conspired with modern medicine and sanitation to preserve ever-increasing numbers of individuals who. in less civilised times, died off in youth and infancy. There was a real danger that the quality of the population might be changed for the worse by the survival of the unfit. A low-quality mind was especially serious.
Wo had not thought: seriously of the future, race, he said, 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 and control. Those who spoke of the inalienable right of personal liberty in That respect were talking bunkum.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 7
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