The Month’s Reviews: Nineteenth Century: … … American affairs are considered by Mr. A. Maurice Low, Mr. W. E. Bear writes on “The Single Tax Mania,” and on the subject of “Social Responsibility and Heredity,” Mrs. Pinsent remarks that “Methods such as control of the mentally defective are not an cannot be sufficient. Something further must be done to meet the position in which we find ourselves today. I mean the position arising from the fact that the undesirable sections of the population are producing children at a faster rate than the desirable. The efficient members of society must be encouraged to have larger families. This is the problem of the future.” …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949