is
reached. If the father is on the verge of impotency just about
the time he is expected to beget his best offspring, that
offspring cannot be expected to present an extra amount of
vitality, virility, or physical stamina; hence, the prepuce
can be brought in as directly tending--in no matter how small
the degree it may be, but nevertheless a factor--to the
physical degeneracy of the race, as well as it demonstrates
the existence of some law for the production of the sexes
which we do not as yet fully comprehend. Aside from the above
considerations, there are those of the actual bar to the
increase of population which the prepuce induces, either by
primarily being the cause of impotence or by direct
interference, as already mentioned, and the impotence that
naturally results from the causes set forth in this note. The
results of a prepuce are certainly such as must act like a
moist, warm, and oily poultice to the irritability induced in
the most confirmed Malthusian when contemplating the--to
him--rapid and unwarranted increase of population.

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