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Judged by animal breeding, the weak in civilised societies reproducing must be highly injurious to humanity
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- Charles Darwin British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury
Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man.
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↗The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (second edition, 1874)gutenberg.org
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