Racial Problem: Mrs. Pinsent and Social Responsibility: Control of the Feeble-Minded: An interesting article by Mrs. Hume Pinsent on the subject of “Social Responsibility and Heredity” is published in the November number of the “National Review.” The article was read in the form of a paper at the recent Church Congress at Cambridge. Mrs. Pinsent is well-known in Birmingham as an authority on feeble mindedness in children. She is the chairman of the Special Schools Sub-committee of the Birmingham Education Committee, and she has rendered valuable service to the City since she became a member of the education authority. Mrs. PInsent, in the opening sentence of her article, says there is no doubt that during the last hundred years there has been an enormous increase in altruistic feeling and as a direct outcome a striking development of the sense of social responsibility … (continues with a long review that includes quotes from the article) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949