"Our lavish and indiscriminate outdoor relief, whose evils I am tired of
recapitulating,--our shameless abuse of the hospital system,--the
crowding of our asylums by people in their dotage, kept there because
there is no suitable place to send them to, and many of them sent by
friends anxious only to be relieved of the duty of supporting and caring
for them,--what is it all coming to?"...

"The practical outcome of our overlooking the continued accumulation of
degenerates among our people by our fostering of all kinds of weakness
will necessarily be, if it continues, that society will itself
degenerate. Taxation will increase by leaps and bounds, and the
industrious and self-respecting citizens will rebel, especially if
taxation is expected to meet all the demands of a legislature that puts
our humanitarian idea of justice in the place of charity."

It has already been urged that there is no evidence of any physiological
defect in any class of society interfering with fertility. Sexual
inhibition, from prudential motives is the real cause in New Zealand.

Sexual inhibition implies well-developed self-control, the very force in
which almost all defectives are most deficient, and the absence of which
makes them criminals, drunkards and paupers. In almost all defectives
too, prudence is conspicuous by its absence.

The only moral force we know of, that has curtailed, or will curtail,
the family within the limits of comfortable subsistence, is sexual
inhibition with prudence. But this force is absolutely impossible
amongst defectives.