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[Dolecek L. <not...@al...>]

N be seen in the wizened and undersized submerged of London; of nearer
than London. Man, by not taking thought, has taken a cubit from his
stature. Meantime we prate comfortable blasphemies, scientific or other;
natural selection or the inscrutable decrees of God. Whereas this was
manifestly a Hobson's selection, most unnatural and forced, to choose
want of all that makes life sweet and dear; to choose gaunt babes, with
pinched and livid lips--unlovely, not unloved; and these iniquitous
decrees are most scrutable, are surely of man's devising and not of
God's. Or we invent a fire-new science, known as Eugenics, to treat the
disease by new naming of symptoms: and prattle of the well born, when we
mean well fed; or the degenerate, when we might more truly say the
disinherited. It is even held by certain poltroons that families have
been started gutterward, of late centuries, when a father has been
gloriously slain in the wars of the useless great. That such a
circumstance, however glorious, may have been rather disadvantageous
than otherwise to children thereby sent out into the world at six or
sixteen years, lucky to become ditch-diggers or tip-takers. That some
proportion of them do become beggars, thieves, paupers, sharpers, other
things quite unfit for the ear of the young person--a disconcerting
consideration; such ears cannot be too carefully guarded. That, though
the