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THE discussion on heredity and social responsibility at the meeting of the Church Congress at Cambridge showed clearly the growing appreciation of the importance of biological principles in the study of social phenomena. The debate was opened by a paper by Dr. G. E. Shuttleworth, who dealt with the subject of the feeble-minded, chiefly from the medical point of view. After tracing the history of the different methods of treatment, he pointed out that in the case of most of the feebleminded “there existed morbid heredity of a strongly transmissive character,” and that the only sound process of attacking the problem was to be found in segregating the rising generation of the feeble-minded in industrial colonies, apart from the general community, for in that way alone could the propagation of the evil be prevented by means in harmony with our feelings of humanity.
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Heredity at the Church Congress . Nature 84, 431 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084431a0
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