Taxation will increase by leaps and bounds, and the
industrious and self-respecting citizens will rebel, especially if
taxation is expected to meet all the demands of a legislature that puts
our humanitarian idea of justice in the place of charity."
It has already been urged that there is no evidence of any physiological
defect in any class of society interfering with fertility. Sexual
inhibition, from prudential motives is the real cause in New Zealand.
Sexual inhibition implies well-developed self-control, the very force in
which almost all defectives are most deficient, and the absence of which
makes them criminals, drunkards and paupers. In almost all defectives
too, prudence is conspicuous by its absence.
The only moral force we know of, that has curtailed, or will curtail,
the family within the limits of comfortable subsistence, is sexual
inhibition with prudence. But this force is absolutely impossible
amongst defectives.
It is not only a powerful force among the normal, but with us to-day it
is powerfully operative. Amongst the defectives it does not and cannot
exist.
Apart from observation and statistics, therefore, it can be shown that
the birth-rate amongst the unfit is undisturbed. They marry and are
given in marriage, free from all restraint save that of environment, and
worst of all they propagate their kind.
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