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their armaments and weapons against each other, would expend their revenues, and mutual strength, to combat enemies of this description. I dare hope, that the time is not far distant, when one will be inclined, in public affairs, to allow the word of the biologically educated physician to have as much weight at least as that of the lawyer and soldier, and when sociologists and statesmen become awake to the significance of heredity-hygiene for the future of mankind."
Parliament has during later years granted Doctor Lundborg a sum of money for undertaking Race-biological investigations in this country, and Uppsala University has procured temporary premises for the above purpose, and placed them at his disposal. But these arrangements are found to be insufficient. Lundborg himself and other prominent investigators in this country, agree that a well-equipped Institute must be established. A wide-spread opinion in Sweden has supported this idea. We may below quote the remarks made by well-known investigators, biologists, and physicians.
"It is sincerely to be hoped" writes Professor H. Nilsson-Ehle of Lund, "that the idea of the Swedish Race-biological Institute, which, during the last few years, has been advanced and strongly supported by several authoritative persons and institutions, may be realized without delay. It is apparent to the theoretical heredity investigator, that the great and difficult task must lie in the hands of medical science. Here are found the necessary qualifications, which consist of a thor-
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[photo caption] The Race-biological Institute of the University is accommodated[sic] in the building to the right.
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