Amusement was caused at the Eugenics Congress when a delegate! suggested the dismissal of Mr. Lloyd George from the Government on eugenic principles, The suggestion arose from a discussion on the subject of a small dark race which is an ingredient of our population, and which is harmful when it is dominant. According to Mr. and Mrs. Who, tham's paper, this race is " short of stature, dark of complexion and hair, longskulled, vivacious, gre-Barious, and at once restless and easy-going." It has mixed in Europe with an Alpine, or medium-coloured, race, and " Northern race of tall, fair men, When the small, dark race gets the ascendancy in any nation it marks a period of national decline. A European nation attains its greatest prosperity when the two stocks are happily blended. But the conquering and directing stock, comes from the North, tends to die out, It takes more on the high seas, in the Colonies, and 80 on. The prosperity of Greece and Rome, the outburst of the Re1 cate moments at which the qualities of the two races were favourably mixed. The daily routine of labour was done by the small, dark men, and the directive, literary, scientific ability of the tall, found its true sphere.
Mr. and Mrs. Whethai the people of England. per class and the country folk are fairer and taller than the industrial tentions of the population," they said.
"There are three principal (1) East Anglia, including Lincolnshire and the neighbourhood, which produced Sir Isaac Newton; (2) the West, round Devon, Somerset, and Wiltshire, of which Sir Walter Raleigh is typical; (3) the Eng-h side of the Welsh border, where istic and literary talent is found.
Large towns, such as London, have no special record of producing commanding personalities. The modern tendencies favour the racial elements of southern origin—elements which, as far as we can ascertain, have been the least productive of men of ability and genius.
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