Race making : a practical natural method of self-determination and control / by Mrs. David McConnel.

  • McConnel, David, Mrs., 1860-1929.
Date:
[1920?]
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Credit: Race making : a practical natural method of self-determination and control / by Mrs. David McConnel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but that there was an evolution in the method of fertilization which found its climax in the human relations, the history of sex determination in the human species covering the whole ground of evolution. One fact demonstrated itself to me very clearly, and that was that the process of reproduction in the animal kingdom did not result in specific diseases of either mother or offspring, as is the case in the human species. Animals are defended by instinct from conception taking place at a time which may be injurious to the mother or which may result in congenital defects in the offspring. Human beings have ceased to have instinct ; it has been replaced by affection and reason, and the appalling list of so-called diseases of women and children, which are due to want of knowledge, and which often descend from one generation to another, might be eliminated if we treated this subject to the same searching scientific method that we do the reproduction in the animal and vegetable kingdoms for our own material use. I took my degree in 1915 and came to England. The war was on, and as a British subject I laid this, my contribution of knowledge, before Lord Kitchener 12