Ronald Campbell Macfie
Ronald Campbell Macfie was a Scottish medical doctor, and science writer specialising in eugenics and Darwinist selection, sometime 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"
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