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

  • Inman, Frederick William
Date:
1935
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Credit: Biological politics : an aid to clear thinking / by F. William Inman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SENTIMENT AND REALITY 29 housed and clad ; their children are better educated than were the better classes until modern times ; and they have a very powerful voice in local and public affairs, and may, if thay have the capacity, rise to a very influential position in the State. Under present conditions of society the quicker- brained do tend to rise in the social level, and have every possibility of being able to transmit their hereditary brightness to the succeeding generations, although placed under a heavy handicap by our sentimental reformers, who have succeeded in almost taxing the man of abnormal intelligence out of existence. Our Communist friends appear to believe that the proper thing to do with these sharper-brained indi¬ viduals is to shoot or to suspend them from lamp-posts, as they have done in Russia ; or to tax them out of existence, as our more humane Socialists preach and strive to do. The natural result has been in Russia that, having purchased expensive machinery, they find that they have difficulty in finding men of sufficient intelligence to run it. It is instructive to pause and to consider the unsound basis from which the glaringly mistaken ideas of our friends so often rise : ideas that they believe in as Gospel truth. It is not everyone who is so far mis¬ taken in his ideas as to imagine that he himself is Mahomet or Queen Victoria, although we may find such ; but many do believe that their own particular philosophy is the one and only one that will inevitably lead to a political Utopia. Mostly we have our own fixed lines of thought, and ideas that do not run along or parallel to these we unhesitatingly condemn. Unfortunately, owing to the education of our better classes being almost exclusively confined to the classics and the traditional learning of the last century, it is only amongst a few scientists and medical men that any inkling of the real harm of all this sentimental
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