known.

Greek and Roman civilization, based upon physical Eugenics, was
unbalanced and could not endure, because it was a civilization of
force; of dominance rather than of unity. There was no ideal of
sex-equality, and therefore Love was regarded as the least important
requisite in Eugenic marriage. It should be obvious that without the
element of love, as the basis of selection, human reproduction must
take on the same status as stock-breeding, which may for a time give
the finest physical specimens of animal life, but which, if persisted
in, finally results in decadence.

We have an example of the tendency to decadence from in-breeding of
those types of humans which have the best advantages at least of
education and refinement, whether or not those advantages are
embraced. We refer to Royalty. We need only mention the illustrious
example of Cleopatra to prove this. Cleopatra was the offspring of a
marriage between a brother and sister--a custom which prevailed among
ancient rulers to insure none but royal blood. Cleopatra we may well
believe was both beautiful and intellectual, but it is also certain
that she was abnormally lacking in conscience, in tenderness, in love.
Her passions were those of the animal, and not of the soul.

In modern life, Spain and Austria both furnish discouraging data to
exponents of "select" breeding. In fact it is thoroughly established
that degeneracy is not the result of imperfect physical conditions
only. The greatest villians are not infrequently both handsome and
intellectual.

Bulwer Lytton well illustrates this fact in his character of
"Margrave" in "A Strange Story." Margrave was a perfect and beautiful
physical specimen. He possessed rare intelligence, but he had no soul
and was utterly incapable of the finer sensibilities, which we
instinctively classify as spiritual attributes.

Returning to a consideration of what has been termed the "unusual
behavior" of the feminine half of mankind, we find that the chief end
and aim of many women centers upon the problem of how to avoid
maternity, quite upsetting traditional ideas regarding woman's
rightful sphere, which began and ended in rearing a large family.

Women in all walks of life, rich and poor, wise and frivolous, selfish
and unselfish--are refusing to bear children. The superficial observer
rails against this, because he sees only the effect. He sees women
living in fashionable hotels, if they are rich enough to afford i