SACRED RIGHT OF CHILD TO BE BORN IS WRONG.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY CONDEMNS MODERN PHILANTHROPY, WHICH ALLOWS DEGENERACY TO PERSIST.
ALL BUNKUM.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.—Aus. and X.Z. Cable Assn. (Received November 25, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. PROFESSOR HUXLEY, lecturing at the Science Guild, said that there was no sacred right of the child to be born. Philanthropy had conspired with modern medicine and sanitation to preserve an ever-increasing number of individuals, who, in less civilised times, would have died off in youth and infancy. There was a real danger that the quality of the population might be changed for ihe worse by the survival of the unfit. The lojv 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 wodld have to face a system of social mating control.
Those who spoke of the inalienable right of personal liberty in that respect were talking bunkum.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 1
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