PERSONAL LIBERTY.
NO SUCH THING. LECTURER’S .CRITICAL ANALYSIS. 11 In the final analysis, there is no such tiling as personal liberty," said Dr. J. S. Minogliue, in an address to tho Newman Society, Sydney University • “ Neither is there any intellectual liberty. No liberty will allow us to make two and two five, or depart from the known facts in science, mathematics, philosophy, education, or psychology. “ The birth-rate continues to fall, and Ihe fact that statisticians tell us we aro doomed to extinction matters not to us. We salve our conscience with such catch-cries as ‘sterilisation of the unfit,’ although psychiatrists arc unable to say who arc the unfit ones or what constitutes unlll-
ness." Tho modern pursuit of pleasure Dr. Newman considered, produced neurotic men and women, jaded a..*, tired, constantly seeking new stimulation in alcohol and drugs,
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 8
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