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Little Essays of Love and Virtue

CHAPTER VII
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We are all members each of the other, and still more are we members of those who went before us.

The generations preceding us have not died to themselves but live in us, and we, whom they produced, live in each other and in those who will come after us.

The problems of eugenics and of birth-control affect us all.

In the face of these problems it is the voice of Man that speaks: "Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of these my brethren, ye did it not unto me." However firmly we base ourselves on the principles of Individualism we are inevitably brought to the fundamental facts of eugenics which, if we fail to recognise, our Individualism becomes of no effect.
[22] F.H.Perrycoste, "Politics and Science," _Science Progress_, Jan., 1920.
But it is the same with Socialism, or by whatever name we chose to call the Collectivist activities of the community in social reform.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
It is the more necessary to point this out since it is on the Socialist and Democratic side, much more frequently than on the Individualist side, that we find an indifferent or positively hostile attitude towards eugenic considerations.


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