, has now become so general that to
regulate sex activity is no longer to regulate reproduction. The taboo
or "moral" method of regulation has become peculiarly degenerating to
race quality, because the most intelligent, rationalized individuals are
least affected by it.

There is no turning back to control by ignorance. Even theoretically,
the only way to stop such a disastrous selection of the unfit would be
to rationalize reproduction--so that _nobody_ shall reproduce the
species through sheer ignorance of how to evade or avoid it. This done,
some type of social control must be found which will enable civilized
societies to breed from their best instead of their worst stock. Under
the old scheme, already half broken down, natural selection favours
primitive rather than civilized societies through decreased birth-rates
and survival of the unfit in the latter. Even this is true only where
the savage groups are not interfered with by the civilized, a condition
rapidly disappearing through modern occidental imperialism and the
inoculation of primitive peoples with "civilized" diseases such as
syphilis, rum-drinking and rampant individualism.

To continually encourage the racially most desirable women to disregard
their sexual specialization and exploit their social-competitive
adaptation must, obviously destroy the group which pursues such a
policy. The only way to make such a course democratic is to carefully
instruct all women, rich and poor, wise and ignorant, in the methods of
avoiding reproduction and to inject the virus of individualism in all
alike. Then the group can get its population supply only by a new system
of control. To remove any economic handicaps to child-bearing is
certainly not out of harmony with our ideas of justice.

In removing the economic handicaps at present connected with the
reproductive function in women, care must also be taken that the very
measures which insure this do not themselves become dysgenic influences.
Such schemes as maternity insurance, pensions for mothers, and most of
the propositions along this line, may offer an inducement to women of
the poorer classes to assume the burdens connected with their
specialization for child-bearing. But their more fortunate sisters, who
find themselves so well adapted to modern conditions that they are even
moderately successful in the competition for material rewards, will
hardly find recompense thus for turning from their social to their