The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate.
— Winston Churchill Modern

British PM during WWII

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Article in the Eugenics Review

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1910

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Controversial

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2986816/

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