The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-04
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! And mat Way the Human Race MN Ne
ImPrs, ~ and social Conditions wan
Mend 20, eriy and Property Go To-
GeIher: 80 End OHe. Fad T's'her.
Sp.,t al Cabls D,spatcs IN TVS SUN
LONDON. March Bernard shaw. adj
dressing the Eugenica Education Society
at CaXton Hall tonight. advocated among
other things the abolition of property
and marriage and the authorization by
, the State to kill undesirables.
1t IL most obvious 60 ev"rybOdy.
he said. that before we can begin 20
breed the human race with the view 20
its Improvement NE must GO futher IN
the direction oi political revolution
than the most extreme Socialist now
ventures TO Suggest publicly
1T il evident that Ne need the entire
abolition 81 property and marriage. as
now Understood. "a a preliminary step.
I do not see any way out 81 that. have
found when addressing audiences on
political questions that they lmmedi-
ately get extraordinarily Interested when-
ever I touch upon the subject ~ marriage
and Improvement oG the human race
They already feel that II IL - demon
strable that property ~ Incompatible
with achieving = high level of humanity
property must go. and IL - evident that
n they could be made to conceive that
marriage is also Incompatible with reach
ing that level they would he prepared
to consider whether marriage should
not 60
Briefly attributIng the existence Of
poverty. ignorance and idlene-s 20 prop
erty Shaw did not elaborate on this
point merely adding: Let us only get
rid Of property and We shall get rid Of
all that
Ne then concentrated hrs remarks on
the marina &C question 1t was the ca
penence 81 almost everybody regs riding
marriage he said. that instead Of
people finding Themselves IN a great
community Of manageable persons Of
their own age there were only about
three persons within their reach and they
did not like any Of them. Nevertheless.
they had 10 make the hest they could
Of these three They were driven into a
marriage which consequently hardly ever
represented their natural impulse. yet
natural impulse seemed 10 be the only
thing which il TO Ire trusted for the i'm
provement of the race
D-aling at length with this point. Shaw
cOntsnded that in order 20 give natural
impulse a chance 90 operate satisfactorily
there ought 10 he serious enort TO make
the whole community lntermArr1AeeAnlo
and TO widen TIM sphere Of eaxual seAeo-
ton. Euenaac pontecs Nnoufa ~ oirePtt*
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come man might SOC an attrhsetve
scruo~omAn: OUT me- oou,n NOT wy W~a
marry her. men nc masnS 40 Duon@~~
VINO ~ouid NOT want 70 marry NM IN
oroer 10 improve th'ner Uhe S'@'e wOun
nave 70 proVior 'ne"n''-- ior evsIyoo@y
ana see 'hA' ~Ach per-"" eA'"~" nv IN
come
Eugene poh''c" Nou'u' co"''""eu 'ne
lecturer ana vs. IN 'he eA'"hs,N" u-e OF
the lethai chamo~r. Nou'd '~ hec~s-
sary Ia revise our views OF the ~acred-
ness OF human we W" -houu ma our
SelVe- cotnia'''eu '" wv N'''"k ~ hr"'
many p"ople
Some WS'iid nave '" 10 remover -"npIy
because u wastes n'het Pssopies time 10
look after them. IN the "h"r hAhd We
should leave living many people ~hom
49, now khl W" should nave T." get
raj II all IDEAS ~ capital punishment
IL - right '" Kali man Who cannot
u" tT'Is'ei to 60 an"u W S"c'"'N "th"h'
inlur'ag others. nut a man NAV com
init murder and vat u" a perfectly sal"
and de-rabl" "'t'N-h Aie"rNard. IN
ds--d. ~ might nav" h',''n Desirable
thing to hay" removed the murdered
man man ought 80 Ia allowed 4"
commit "A certain number ~ crimes liiSt
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