...not keep pace with medical science in this matter the end will be national disaster. In other words, I would lay it down as a general principle that as...insure that these unfit do not propagate their kind. " For, mark you, it is not as if these degenerates mated solely amongst themselves. Were that so, it...

...progressives of the day when he observed: ... as soon as a nation reaches that stage of civilisation in which medical knowledge and humanitarian sentiment...upon that nation to devise such social laws as will ensure that those unfit do not propagate their kind.45 In the Eugenics Review (1909) Tredgold makes...