The fertility of the unfit / [W.A. Chapple].

  • Chapple, W. A.
Date:
1903
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: The fertility of the unfit / [W.A. Chapple]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    148/156 (page 124)
    CONCLUSION. In conclusion let us briefly review the whole position taken up in this imperfect study of a great question. 1. The birth-rate is rapidly and persistently declining. 2. The food-rate is persistently increasing. 3. The declining fertility is not uniform through all classes. 4. The fertility of the best is rapidly declining. 5. The fertility of the worst is undisturbed. 6. The policy of the State is inimical to the fertility of its best, and fosters the fertility of its worst citizens. 7. The infertility of the best stock is due to voluntary curtailment of the family, through sexual self-restraint. 8. No such factor does or can obtain as a check to the fertility of the unfit. 9. The proportion of the unfit to the fit is in consequence annually increasing. 10. The future oi society demands that com¬ pulsory sterilization of the unfit should be adopted.