The Family and the Nation: A Study in Natural Inheritance and Social Responsibility (Classic Reprint) - Rilegato

Dampier, William Cecil

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ISBN 10: 0666560250 ISBN 13: 9780666560254

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

Riassunto

Excerpt from The Family and the Nation: A Study in Natural Inheritance and Social Responsibility

Great is the power of environment. There, but for the Grace of God, goes John Bradford, is a thought that has occurred to us all when watching misfortunes we have escaped. The efforts of men of science, philanthropists, and statesmen have been directed for centuries towards improving the general environ ment of the race, and of late years with conspicuous success. Two centuries ago the annual death-rate of London was some eighty in a thousand to-day it has sunk to fifteen. And a lowered death-rate means more than lives prolonged. It means improved conditions, which give greater health and strength to those who.

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0666560250
• ISBN 13: 9780666560254
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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