Euthanasia : and other aspects of life and death / by Harry Roberts.

  • Harry Roberts
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Euthanasia : and other aspects of life and death / by Harry Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONSTITUTION AND IDIOSYNCRASY would, in many ways, be an excellent thing if the normal manifestations of love could be freed from all thought of consequences; if the most satisfying of the adventures open to man could be looked upon as disinterestedly and unprudentially as poetry or as the contemplation of beauty itself. The propagation of the species might once we had eliminated certain traits from our nature be made the specialized duty of selected individuals, and human breeding be conducted with the same scientific efficiency as that—so admired by the eugenists which characterizes the conduct of the stud-farm and the raising of pedigree pigs. But the notion that the steri¬ lizing of a few thousand poor simpletons who are weak in their arithmetic or fail to recognize the orderly beau¬ ties of our industrial system is going appreciably to raise the intellectual standard of the nation is just a fairy-tale of old-wives’ science. CONSTITUTION AND IDIOSYNCRASY (or the physical basis of individuality) May I fill your glass ? ” I asked my host, who had placed a bottle of Bass before me. “ No, I’ll have a drop of stout. Dr. Chappell put me on to it. When I lived up North, stout used to upset me ; whereas a glass of beer nearly always made the wheels go round. Chappell explained to me that it was a matter of latitude. He said I should find that, whilst beer agreed with me, and stout disagreed, when north of the Thames, the