7. The infertility of the best stock is due to voluntary
curtailment of the family, through sexual self-restraint.
8. No such-factor does or can obtain as a check to the fertility of
the unfit.
9. The proportion of the unfit to the fit is in consequence
annually increasing.
10. The _future_ of society demands that compulsory sterilization
of the unfit should be adopted.
11. No method ever tried or suggested offers the advantages of
simplicity, safety, effectiveness, and popularity, promised by
tubo-ligature.
12. The State must protect itself against the collateral danger of
artificial sterilization of its best stock.
The highest interest of Society and of the individual urgently requires
that the size of families be controlled.
The moral restraint of Malthus (delayed marriage) and post-nuptial
intermittent restraint are the only safe and rational methods, that our
civilization can possibly encourage, or physiology endorse.
These methods must of necessity be peculiar to the best class of people.
For the worst class of people, induced sterility, or prohibited
fertility, is an absolute necessity, if Society and civilization must
endure.
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