of the law of heredity. Would not all these women readily submit to
sterilization?

As it produces no mental nor moral, nor physical change, it violates no
law, and outrages no sentiment. It is an outrage upon society, and a
greater upon an innocent helpless victim to bring a defective into the
world; it is a moral act to prevent it by this means.

And of all the methods yet suggested or devised, or practised,
tubo-ligature is the simplest, most effective, and least opposed to
sentiment and prejudice.

It will of course be asked:--What about criminals and defective men? Let
their wives be sterilized. The wife of any criminal would deem it a boon
to be protected from the offspring of such a man, so would society.

If he is not married, then society must take the risk, and it is not
very great. The women who will be his companions will be either
sterilized by disease or by tubo-ligature, because they are defectives.
This protection from the progeny of defective men, though not absolute,
is complete enough for all practical purposes.

If all defective women and the wives of all defective men are
sterilized, a greater improvement will take place in the race in the
next 50 years, than has been accomplished by all the sanitation of the
Victorian era.