DEAN INGE . ON THE POPULATION QUESTION.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—In spite of your oft-repeated assertion that you welcome views contrary to your own, I perceive that on one question —the reduction and extinction of the white races—you will publish only one side. No one objects to the limitation of the unfit, we all want it ; but the paragraphs devoted on page 45 to Mr. Alvin Johnson's article obviously approving of his views favour the idea of limitation of birth to prevent overcrowding. Two vitally important considerations arc missed—the first is that though in Europe men are more numerous than 100, 200 or 1,000 years ago, they are undoubt- edly better fed (the reason being that intelligent life creates more than it destroys); the second is that it is useless to expect the coloured race, to follow suit, and since the more intelligent read your columns, not the unfit (whom we want to get rid of), the persistent advocacy of birth-control to prevent over- crowding must result in the elimination, first of the better stocks, and then of the whole white race in comparison with the coloured. The history of Peru and of Knossos, to mention only two, illustrate the fact that the continuance of a civil- ization depends on a continuance of sufficient of the race to keep it up. Your advice, therefore, if followed, will result in the extinction of white race and civilization. But is that really what you want ?—I am, Sir, &c., February 19th.
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