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Ronald Campbell Macfie was a Scottish medical doctor, poet and science writer specialising in eugenics and evolution.〔''The Congregational Quarterly'', Volume 13, Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1 Jan 1935, p. 169〕 ==Biography== He was a Scottish physician and writer. He had qualified in medicine in Aberdeen in 1897 and specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis.〔Gillian Lindsay ''Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer'' Hale, 30 Apr 1990, p. 87〕 He was also a Liberal Member of British Parliament mentioned in ''The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets'' (4th edition 1931) as a contributor to such works as ''Fairy Tales for Old and Young (1909), and The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry (1940)''. Among his works are "Man’s Record in the Rocks" (''My Magazine'', May 1921) '' The Art of Keeping Well'' Cassell & Co. 1918/The Vegetarian Society and ''Evolutionary Consequences of War'' (cited below). Campbell Macfie suggested that that male war deaths (during World War I) would create a surplus of fertile women, thus reducing the overall birthrate whilst the surviving men would select partners from a wide range of 'surplus' females according to eugenically (sexually) attractive characteristics. He averred that: :'' "Nature has wisely arranged that men should be attracted (to women) by characteristics that imply a superior capacity for motherhood... (thus)...every war will do something to set up evolutionary tendencies opposite to its own, brutal, truculent, anti-social spirit''" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ronald Campbell Macfie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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