Hand-written paper found in Truby King's copy of Racial Decay: A Compilation of Evidence from World Sources.

c. 1911

Truby King Collection HQ 751 BB59 1911

Unpublished

A hand-written paper discovered in Octavius Beale’s Racial Decay outlines King’s own thoughts on the birth-rate question. Not only did Beale’s work help crystalise King’s ideas on ‘this profoundly important matter’, but it allowed him to mention Malthus, John Stuart Mill, and Annie Besant, who in their own way grappled with the issue. King also makes mention of President Theodore Roosevelt and his notion of ‘race-suicide’, an aspect that also concerned him.