Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Social environment and moral progress / by Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![XVI] Progress Through Selection own fault —they are wastrels — and deserve neither pity nor help. He knows nothing apparently of Dr. Barnardo's work in rescuing these wastrel children from the gutter and the workhouse, treating them well and kindly, training them in work, and sending many thousands to Canada. A record of their subsequent life was kept, and it was found that very few failed to do well, while a very large majority became valuable citizens in their new home. On the whole, they were in no way inferior to the average of emigrants who go at their own expense, and who are admitted to be among the best of our workers. None of the writers of the class here quoted seem to have made themselves acquainted with the researches of Herbert Spencer, Sir F. Galton, and others, as to the natural laws which determine the rate of increase of population when those laws are allowed to operate freely under rational and moral social conditions. A short state¬ ment of these laws will therefore be given. In a remarkable essay, first published in 1852, H. Spencer, with his usual philo¬ sophical insight, examined the facts of reproduction and population throughout 141](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18022121_0154.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
