| Show MENACE OF THE UNFIT DIRE EVIL OF WAR POINTED OUT BY SCIENTIST best blood of the countries involved Is poured out on the cattle battle fields sd and future generations will be the sufferers I 1 the racial damage which has been done to the people of europe by the killing and maiming ot of the tha higher type of manhood was discussed recently by maj leonard darwin a son eon of charles dara darwin in the naturalist at a meeting of the royal Stati statistical society in london observes the new york sun 1 in the course of his paper statistical inquiries needed after the war in connection with E eugenics maj major datwin stated that the british casualties might be about 6 1 aier cent cfall the men available major darwin stated that lunquest lun unquestionably ques tion ably tho ho war was killing off the better types of men ile he pointed ou out that the active causes of the racial damage bould not let cease with the war because the birth rates odthe of the higher type would continue to be bo adversely affected only those born in thelast the last eighteen years would be entirely undamaged by the war he said and it would be increasingly necessary during the next twenty years to emphasize the fact that incises incases in cases where bath parents are birly lie healthy althy it Is aipa and immoral to limn limit me size of tho the family exception except in view of bringing thee the children hildren up in comfort ile he stated that the racial damage would be atias at its worst when peace was d declared e blared the checki checking nr of th emul odthe of the unfit would never neve r bo 0 more needed than then he added prof arthur keith conservator of the museum and hunterman Hun terlan professor of the royal college of surgeons I 1 when interviewed an the subject a at t the ro royal al college 0 of f surgeons by a re representative presen dative of the pall mall gazette said he was not aware of the existence ot of any statistics which went to show that the stature of tho the r rench french nation natio n diminished after ali napoleonic wars the question 0 Is are we losing our best besim men there ls ia no 6 doubt w wo e are losing our bravest mak men the tha men of tb the e highest physical courage of bf the highest patriotism have 4 volunteered but have these men ae left children be hind it they have and of course we know abw they have then the cannot be affected as aft a whole fit it should be remembered that OUT oui males up to the age of eighteen re main untouched and that part of tin population cannot be injured there la is another point to consider themen the men who are most eminent fit ted for our modern civilization to fo on our r industrial civilization are not th tb bravest men of the nation at all th tb extremely brave man man is of no use ini in 1 dui trial life it is nonsense to tall abc about pt war being the cause of the cartae I 1 of eliminating the be beet etmon men Tar warfare fare goes on in the indu world but the warfare of the indu t trial ria world ls 18 waged py by competition not bravery bravery in the one case it P 1 physical courage bravery that counts in ahe other versatility and I 1 brains 5 |
