Biological politics : an aid to clear thinking / by F. William Inman.

  • Inman, Frederick William
Date:
1935
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Biological politics : an aid to clear thinking / by F. William Inman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TRUTH WE DO NOT LIKE 9 that it would be better for the future of the human race to reverse the poHcy of the Soviets in Russia, and to refrain from slaughtering or otherwise discouraging the Bourgeois, and to attempt rather to get rid of the down-and-out. Normally, nature has largely succeeded in doing just this in the larger cities. When not inter¬ fered with by well-meaning humanitarians, she has largely succeeded in weeding out a good many of the children of drunkards, and the failures in the race for survival, such as the mentally defective, and the numerous classes of hereditarily weak and low resist¬ ance to disease and infection individuals. From this cold-blooded point of view it is certain that the action of much of our civilization may be compared to the mistaken activities of some Medical Officer of Health who should deliberately block up the main sewer of the Municipality under his charge. Eleventhly, that to get the best possible results it is desirable that the better classes should be encouraged to breed more freely, and that the resulting children should be carefully selected and weeded out where desirable. Twelfthly, that our own, or the Nordic race, is superior to any other in physique and beauty ; intel¬ lectually it may be a bit slow, although it has proved its capabilities in inventiveness and love of justice and good government. Still, mentally it is not such a greatly superior race as our German relatives would like to maintain, although on the whole it is probably more judicious, steadier, and able to sum up an argument with less prejudice than most of the other races. The better-class Jews show a superiority in brain quickness, probably due to breeding the better-class people's girls with the boys from successful families, due to their dower system ; also to the severe weeding out that they have been subjected to in the mediaeval ghettoes, where only the best have been able to survive to transmit their characteristics to the following
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