It is quite clear how intolerable the burden of these evils would be.

A State that provided an adequate subsistence for all alike, the inefficient as well as the efficient, would encourage a racial degeneration, from excessive multiplication of the unfit, far more dangerous even than that of to-day.[24] Ability to earn the minimum wage, Eden Paul argues in agreement with H.G.Wells, must be the condition of the right to become a parent.

"Unless the socialist is a eugenist as well, the socialist state will speedily perish from racial degradation." [23] In an essay on "Eugenics, Birth Control, and Socialism" in _Population and Birth-Control: A Symposium_, edited by Eden and Cedar Paul.
[24] This is here and there beginning to be recognised.

Thus, not long ago, the Hereford War Pensions Committee resolved not to issue a maternal grant for children born during a prolonged period of treatment allowance.

Such a measure of course fails to meet the situation, for it is obvious that, when born, the children must be cared for.