Ronald Campbell Macfie Explained

Ronald Campbell Macfie (1867–1931) was a Scottish medical doctor, poet and science writer specialising in eugenics and evolution.[1] [2]

Biography

He was a Scottish physician and writer. He had qualified in medicine in Aberdeen in 1897 and specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis.[3]

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 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:[4]

Books published

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: T. Bose. R. N. Colbeck. A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres. 1 November 2011. UBC Press. 978-0-7748-4481-9. 508–.
  2. The Congregational Quarterly, Volume 13, Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1 Jan 1935, p. 169
  3. Gillian Lindsay Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer Hale, 30 Apr 1990, p. 87
  4. Ronald. Cambell Macfie. Evolutionary Consequences of War. 20543937. The Lotus Magazine. 9. 1. 7–12. 2150-5977 . Oct 1917.
  5. Review of The Romance of Medicine by Ronald Campbell Macfie. The Athenaeum. 4173. October 19, 1907. 485.