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Little Essays of Love and Virtue

CHAPTER VII
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But it shows a glimmering recognition of the facts, and the people capable of such a recognition will, in time, come to see that the right way of meeting the situation is, not to neglect the children, but to prevent their conception.

Mothers' Clinics for instruction in such prevention are now being established in England, through the advocacy of Mrs.Margaret Sanger and the actual initiative of Dr.Marie Stopes.
Thus it is essential that the eugenist, dealing with the hereditary factor of life, and the social reformer or socialist, dealing with the environmental factor, should supplement each other's work.

Neither can attain his end without the other's help, for the eugenist alone cannot overcome the environmental factor, even perhaps increases it if he is an individualist in the narrow sense, and the socialist alone cannot overcome the bad hereditary factor, and will even increase it if he is no more than a socialist.

The more socialist our State becomes the more essential becomes at the same time the adoption of eugenic practices as a working part of the State.

"Socialism and eugenics must go hand in hand." Perrycoste from his own point of view has independently reached the same conclusions.


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