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Anaesthetics and antiseptics have made this comparison possible and
true.
Any surgeon who performs tubo-ligature should be liable to prosecution,
unless he can justify his action according to the law relating to the
artificial sterility of the unfit.
While the law would eventually require to be obligatory, with regard to
the absolutely unfit, it would require to be permissive in all other
cases.
Many voluntarily abstain from marriage, because of a strong hereditary
tendency to certain diseases such as cancer and tubercle.
There must of necessity be many on the border-land between the fit and
the unfit, and clauses permitting sterilization under some circumstances
would be required.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion let us briefly review the whole position taken up in this
imperfect study of a great question.
1. The birth-rate is rapidly and persistently declining.
2. The food-rate is persistently increasing.
3. The declining fertility is not uniform through all classes.
4. The fertility of the best is rapidly declining.
5. The fertility of the worst is undisturbed.
6. The policy of the State is inimical to the fertility of its
best, and fosters the fertility of its worst citizens.
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