For is not the proportion of
the unfit to the fit yearly increasing!
It has become the most pressing duty of the State, in face of the great
change that has so rapidly come over our natural increase, to declare
that the procreation of the unfit shall cease, or at least, that it
shall be considerably curtailed and placed among the vanishing evils,
with a view to its final extinction.
CHAPTER X.
WHAT ANAESTHETICS AND ANTISEPTICS HAVE MADE POSSIBLE.
_Education of defectives in prudence and self-restraint of little
avail.--Surgical suggestions discussed._
For the intelligent mind, which I assume has already been impressed with
the importance of such an inquiry, I think I have set forth the salient
truths with sufficient clearness, but holding that a recitation of
social faults, without a suggestion as to social reforms, is not only
useless but mischievous, I shall endeavour to show not only that the
situation is not hopeless, but that science and experience have, or will
reveal means to the accomplishment of all rationally desired ends, and
that it remains only for intelligence to enquire that sentiment may move
up to the line so as to harmonise with science, with justice, and with
the demands of a growing necessity.
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