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sities. And is it not unsound economy to willingly sacrifice large sums to support
the evil, but not a penny to föreställ the same, when we have the means at hand?
In Sweden this problem could be more easily solved than in most other coun*
tries for a certain reason: that is to say, we have the immense advantage of pos*
sessing a Swedish race*biologist, who as regärds his researches, is admitted to be
one of the foremost, namely Docent Herman Lundborg, whose pioneering res»
earches I have referred to above. He has bestowed an incredible amount of pains*
taking labour in solving problems which are the most important in Race*biology,
and has achieved great success. Would it not be a simple token of gratitude, and
a deserving reward, for a sacrificial and disinterested life*work, to give him the
opportunity, under more favourable conditions than obtains now, to continue the
researches, which are of such great importance for the future welfare of our people?
Two Swedish women in prominent positions, namely Ellen Key the autho*
ress, and Baroness Ebba Palmstierna have, on several occasions, with emphasis and
enthusiasm, given expression to their faith in the feasibility of eugenic ideas, and
have spöken in favour of the Swedish Race*biological Institute as a first step in
the right direction.
This question came very much to the fore, when the Rector of the Karolinska
Institutet (The High School of Medicine in Stockholm) Professor F. Lennmalm,
one of the most prominent physicians in Sweden, in a long report to the Nobel
Committee of the Institute in December 1918, advanced the idea of the establish*
ment of a medical Nobel Institute for Race*biology. From his expert and thor*
ough explication, the following may be quoted:
»There has, for a long time in this country, been a desire to establish a Race*
biological Institute, and several biologists, physicians, and national economists have
given expression to this in print. Now that there is a possibility of establishing
a medical Nobel Institute, I, for my part do not know of any branch of medical
research which, for its development requires so much support as race*biology,
nor do I know of any branch of medical research which, on account of its sig*
nificance, is more worthy of such support. The »Karolinska Institutet» would
prove to be an excellent guardian of Alfred Nobel’s testament, and the Institute
would also be very benificial to Medical Science through the establishment of a
medical Nobel Institute for Race*biology and Heredity research. The »Karolinska
Institutet» would hereby also embody the new science: a High School of Medicine
which would retain its position as the most prominent in the country, must endeav*
our to support the new branches of Medical Sciences which are working their
way up, and can easily be stifled if not duly sustained.»
The Committee agreed unanimously to the suggestion, which for essentially
formal reasons, was not accepted by the Board of the »Karolinska Institutet».
At a later conference of the »Karolinska Institutet», Professors Lennmalm and
Gadelius, strongly emphasized the significance of the Race*biological Institute, in
the following words:
»During the discussion regarding a Race*biological Institute it has been sta*
ted, that the whole question can be settled by appointing Docent Lundborg in
Uppsala, to a professorship. In the meanwhile this would be a solution which
is by no means compatible with the real weight and significance of the problem,
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