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Londoners of a Victorian cast of mind peeped cautiously last week into a new book, The Need for Eugenic Reform, by Major Leonard Darwin. They had not yet recovered from The Origin of Species by the Major's late father, Charles Darwin. Their horridest fears were stirred when they discovered that the "eugenic reform" demanded by the major is a law penalizing individuals who bring into the world a greater number of children than their income will permit them to support decently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Young Darwin | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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