experts in Far-Eastern questions predicted that the world would
end by becoming Chinese.

POSITIVE TASKS

The elimination of the abuses and dangers, pointed out under the
heading of negative tasks, would prepare the soil for a healthier and
more ideal development of the sexual relations of humanity in the
future. These require the prevention of blastophthoric deterioration
of germ cells, as well as all pathological degeneration of sexual
intercourse. They also require true and natural affection, free from
the influences of prejudice and money, and capable of surviving
amorous intoxication. Lastly, they require a natural human
organization, adapted to the social welfare, the duties of parents
toward their children, and the rights they have over them.

=Human Selection.=--This is impossible to attain without recourse to
artificial means, which have hitherto been generally condemned, or
employed with an unhealthy and corrupt object. I refer to the
distinction between satisfaction of the sexual appetite and the
procreation of children.

Although it is true that the two things are inseparably connected in
plants and animals, it is equally true that the culture and social
development of humanity all over the world have given rise to
conditions and necessities other than those which formerly existed,
conditions which at the present day are so clearly evident that they
cannot be disregarded.

The struggle for existence, as it obtains between the different animal
species, hardly exists any longer in man. The latter has now to fight
with microbes, and other infinitely small things of the same nature.
The combat between man and man, in the form of international warfare,
is approaching its end. The wars of the present day, as foolish as
they are formidable, are rapidly becoming absurd. We may even hope
that the supreme struggle which is impending between the Aryan and
Mongolian races will end in peaceful agreement.

Is it, therefore, rational to abandon the quantitative and qualitative
regulation of the procreation of children to natural selection--that
is to say to brutal chance, disease, famine or infanticide--at a time
of human evolution when science contends with the greatest success
against accident, disease, infant mortality and famine?

Our strong sexual appetite is no longer in proportion to the
exigencies of procreation, nor to the means of providing food for our
descendants, nor to the right of the latter to b