marriage rates .-- Those who delay, and those who abstain from marriage .-- Good motives mostly actuate .-- All limitation implies restraint .-- Birth-rates vary inversely with prudence and self-control .-- The limited family usually born in early married life when progeny is less likely to be well developed .-- Our worst citizens most prolific.

Effect of poverty on fecundity .-- Effect of alcoholic intemperance .-- Effect of mental and physical defects .-- Defectives propagate their kind .-- The intermittent inhabitants of Asylums and Gaols constitute the greatest danger to society .-- Character the resultant of two forces--motor impulse and inhibition .-- Chief criminal characteristic is defective inhibition .-- This defect is strongly hereditary .-- It expresses itself in unrestrained fertility.
CHAPTER VIII .-- THE MULTIPLICATION OF THE FIT IN RELATION TO STATE p.

77 The State's ideal in relation to the fertility of its subjects .-- Keen competition means great effort and great waste of life .-- If in the minds of the citizens space and food are ample multiplication works automatically .-- To New Zealanders food now includes the luxuries as well as the necessities of life .-- Men are driven to the alternative of supporting a family of their own or a degenerate family of defectives .-- The State enforces the one but cannot enforce the other .-- New Zealand taxation .-- The burden of the bread-winner .-- As the State lightens this burden it encourages fertility .-- The survival of the unfit makes the burden of the fit.
CHAPTER IX .-- THE MULTIPLICATION OF THE UNFIT IN RELATION TO THE STATE p.

85 Ancient methods of preventing the fertility of the unfit .-- Christian sentiment suppressed inhuman practices .-- Christian care brings many defectives to the child-bearing period of life .-- The association of mental and physical defects .-- Who are the unfit ?--The tendency of relatives to cast their degenerate kinsfolk on the State .-- Our social conditions manufacture defectives and foster their fertility .-- The only moral force that limits families is inhibition with prudence .-- Defective self-control transmitted hereditarily .-- Dr.MacGregor's cases .-- The transmission of insanity .-- Celibacy of the insane is the prophylaxis of insanity in the race .-- The environment of the unfit .-- Defectives snatched from Nature's clutches .-- At the age of maturity they are left to propogate their kind.
CHAPTER X .-- WHAT ANAESETICS AND ANTISEPTICS HAVE MADE POSSIBLE p.

99 Education of defectives in prudence and self-restraint of little avail .-- Surgical suggestions discussed.
CHAPTER XI .-- TUBO-LIGATURE p.