And the greater the decline in the birth-rate of our best stock, the more urgent does the solution of the problem become.

For is not the proportion of the unfit to the fit yearly increasing! It has become the most pressing duty of the State, in face of the great change that has so rapidly come over our natural increase, to declare that the procreation of the unfit shall cease, or at least, that it shall be considerably curtailed and placed among the vanishing evils, with a view to its final extinction..