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Show PROSPERITY IS I RUINFORMOST Swedish Professor Asserts in Address That Race Suffers Suf-fers Even to Degradation When Money Is Plentiful - RTOCKHOLM. Oct. 14. Prosperity's Is a bad thing for a race because It la one of the first steps toward degeneration. degener-ation. Is tho opinion of Professor Her , man Lundborg, head of tho Race Bio- V logical Institute at ITpaala, Sweden and well known for hla Investigations Into eugenic, and racial biology. ro-perlty brings with it tho gradual elimination of tho good old middle clnas, tho professor declared In a recent re-cent addreaa on thla subject, and this In any country Is a sure sign of derav. "There la grave doubt," the speaker continued, "whether a people really gains any profit when mlllona of money begin to pour Into the country. Experience, past aa well as present, shows that when wealth Is suddenly Increased it brings endle-s new needs, luxuries are demanded, lassitude seta In, and the interest In work and production pro-duction falls off. Women begin to avoid maternity. All of these processes, beginning In the middle and upper classes, gradually work downward and In time destroy tho race. Thus they are aa much menace to a country aa a powerful political enemy."' Tha professor approvea of birth control, con-trol, however, especially among tho less desirable elements of a country's population, and ho believes that tho r production of a race should be limited, limit-ed, as far a possible, to those who are "well born." He lo stoutly opposed to the mixing of. races, and givea thla as one of tho reasons why populations la laiger cities tend to degenerate, except ex-cept In so far aa racially replenished from the country districts. "Kuropo io decaying, not aa a result re-sult of political cataclysms, but also because of a misconception of racial hygiene, and a failure to counteract tho forces of degeneration. A strong middle mid-dle class Is necessary for the racial health of a people. Increasing Industry Indus-try snd trade make It possible to feed a larger population, but at tho same time brings about a serious chsnge la the structure of society. The old middle mid-dle class decaya and finally disappears. A new middle class Is formed, to bo sure, but It Is of poor substance. Meanwhile there Is numerical gain IfW both the upperndthlowrclassesZjV. especially the latter. In tTmethT work- ing clasa becomes tho largest, and underneath un-derneath this comes a layer of human trash." Just what political measures. If any, J should bo taken to safeguard racln',4 vigor and purity. Professor Lundborg does not suggest, saying that such discussion dis-cussion would naturally fall outside ths province of a scientist. |