They have come to enlarge the definition of "food," and this term now
includes luxuries easily obtainable for themselves and their families.
But the luxuries of life and living can only be easily obtained when
individual effort to obtain them is unhampered. Every burden which a man
has to bear (only the best are here referred to,--the fit members of the
State) limits his power to provide for himself, and any he may bring
into the world.
If the State decrees that a citizen shall support himself, his mate, and
his progeny, well and good,--if he has no other burden to bear, no other
responsibility, he knows exactly where he is and what he has to do, and
directs his energies and controls his impulses, and enlarges his desires
to suit his tastes and purposes.
But if the State decrees that a citizen shall not only support all for
whose existence he is responsible, but also all those unable to support
themselves, born into the world in increasing numbers as congenital
defectives, and manufactured in the world by legalised drinking saloons,
and by pauperising charitable aid and benevolent institutions, then our
self-respecting right-respecting citizen must decide whether he will
forego the luxury and ease that he may enjoy, and rear the normal
family, or curtail his own progeny, and support the army of defectives
thrown upon society by the State-encouraged fertility of the unfit.
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