From such the State has good reason to expect the best stock.
It is one purpose of this work to show that this class, which can and should produce the best in the largest numbers, is being overwhelmed with the burden of supporting an ever-increasing number of incapables, and, largely in consequence of this increasing burden and responsibility, are unwilling to produce, because they are unable adequately to support their own kind.
There is a class in every large community, whose sense of responsibility in life is at zero, whose self-control is substituted by the law and its sanctions, and whose modes and habits of life are little better than those of the lower animals.

Their appetites are stronger, their desires, though fewer, are more intense, and their self-control less easily and less frequently exerted than those in the highest planes of life.
In the first place then they have less desire to limit their families, and less power to exercise the self-restraint that is necessary to do so.

Less sense of responsibility is attached to the rearing of a family, whilst the education of their children gives them little or no concern.
They entertain no ambition that members of their family should compete in the struggle for social status.

Their instincts and their impulses are their guide in all things.

They marry early, and procreation is unrestrained except by the hardships of life.
This constitutes a numerous class in every large community, and includes the criminal, the drunkard, and the pauper, and many defectives such as epileptics and imbeciles.