A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."
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Lecture to the London's Eugenics Education Society, printed in The Daily Express (March 4, 1910), and quoted in Evelyn Cobley, Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2009) p. 159