Content not yourselves with some part of it, that you read the gospel, or new Testament, but neglect the old as is the practice of some flush notionist.

It was not that Powell and many other Britons did not fear for the quality of the race and complain on occasions about “bastardization” and “mongrelization,” but more often than not, their eugenic presuppositions were (and perhaps still are) implicit in their analyses of the birthrate rather than specifically articulated.

…are they not from this fountain of covetousness, that greediness in getting, tenacity in keeping, sordidity in spending?

O! gin I were where Gadie rins,