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IT is impossible to let the article ” Cultivation of the Unfit”, signed by E. W. M. in NATURE of January 11, pass without comment. With remarkable inconsistency, the author felicitates Sir Arthur Keith's apologia for war as being ” the result of increasing population and race pressure” and ” the means by which Nature decides which race shall inherit the earth”; yet admits in an adjacent paragraph that the spread of birth-control will bring to an end the ” cultivation of the unfit”. If birth-control can be made to do this, why can it not also be made to bring to an end the existence of War, with all its horrors? Population-control by a world authority is the obvious goal towards which all our efforts should be tending.
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NEEDHAM, J. Cultivation of the Unfit. Nature 137, 188 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137188b0
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