itself, the larger part of the reproductive activities will still be
confined to the more ignorant, or if they also make use of contraceptive
knowledge, the group will simply die out from the effects of its own
democratic enlightenment. Thus it becomes apparent that we must find
some more potent force than this narrow form of self-interest to
accomplish the social purposes of reproduction. When reproduction is
generally understood to be as thoroughly a matter of group survival as
for example the defensive side in a war of extermination, the same
sentiment of group loyalty which now takes such forms as patriotism can
be appealed to. If the human race is unsocial it will perish anyway. If
it has not become unsocial--and it does not display any such tendency,
but only the use of such impulses in mistaken directions--then a group
necessity like reproduction can be met. Whatever is required of the
individual will become "moral" and "patriotic"--i.e., it will be
wreathed in the imperishable sentiments which group themselves around
socially necessary and hence socially approved acts everywhere and
always.

In whatever races finally survive, the women of good stock as well as
poor--perhaps eventually the good even more than the poor--will
reproduce themselves. Because of our ideals of individual liberty, this
may not be achieved by taboo, ignorance or conscription for motherhood.
But when it is found to be the personal interest to bear children, both
as a means of complete physical and mental development and as a way of
winning social approval and esteem, it will become as imperative for
woman to fulfil the biological function to which she is specialized as
it was under the old system of moral and taboo control. The increasing
emphasis on the necessity of motherhood for the maintenance of a normal,
health personality, and the growing tendency to look upon this function
as the greatest service which woman can render to society, are manifest