connection. But that is the trouble with our modern life.
We do not look deeply enough to deal intelligently with causes. We are
always seeking to check effects.

The average human being is little more than a phonographic record of
the dominant race-thought, and race-thought ideas are contagious.

Let us honor and provide for all mothers and all children and we will
find that the birthrate will increase among the "rich and
respectable," where now we note a determined desire to shirk the
responsibilities of parenthood.

We need not fear that the number of unmarried mothers will be
alarming. The first aid to true morality is honesty. Monogamy is the
ideal relationship between men and women. But enforced relationships
are neither ideal nor true. Ideal conditions can be established only
between free human beings. Compulsion is death. Selection and choice
mean life and health.

The man or the woman who is free, and particularly free from
self-condemnation, is instinctively monogamous. Life in all its phases
tends upward toward conscious and specific selection. Conscious
selection must include love, and we may safely trust love. Love is
inseparable from truth and fidelity. Without love, all the efforts of
all the Eugenic Societies on earth will accomplish little, however
well-meant their efforts. Eugenists confine their work to the physical
aspect of the subject and as a matter of expediency deal with the
effects of marriage and race-propagation in their relation to disease
and degeneracy, ignoring the esoteric phase of the subject. Thus no
real good can come of the Eugenic movement per se. Its contribution to
Progress consists in its value as an "announcer" of a higher _ideal_,
rather than a higher _order_. The higher order can come only by
getting back to primal laws.

The fact should not be overlooked that the ancient Greeks were
competent Eugenists. They effected wonderful results, too, in two
important points of the well-balanced individual. They worked for
beauty and intellect, both desirable adjuncts to a perfect race, but
both also as cold as the marble statues which Greece gave to the
world. Greek and Roman civilization toppled and fell because it was a
civilization without foundation; it was built from the outside; it was
like an old ruined house encased in a thin wall of beautiful marble,
and set upon a high hill. It deceives the eye from a distance, but
freezes the blood and congeals the soul when intimately