UNFIT NOT WANTED
BRITAIN’S BAFFLING PROBLEM. Onlted Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph —Copyright LONDON, October 22. Bishop Barnes, at Liverpool Cathedral, advocated the sterilisation of the unfit. He said: “Blind humanltarianism Is not Christian or sensible. Defectives and degenerates were formerly eliminated. There was a hard struggle for exislence, and at present these were preserved and allowed to propagate at great cost to the community. Christ’s teaching was free of any hint of Indulgent good nature, wherefore we ought to accept a measure of eugenics. England cannot permanently carry the burden of the 'social problem class' riddled by mental defects comprising a tenth of the community.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19628, 24 October 1933, Page 14
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106UNFIT NOT WANTED Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19628, 24 October 1933, Page 14
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