1 23456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
| | | | | | | | |
Healthy Died in Drowned Epilepsy Healthy Idiot Died in Healthy |
infancy infancy |
in in Scrofulous
convulsions convulsions

_The above diagrammatic histories of eight families are taken from Dr.
Strahan's "Marriage and Disease."_




CHAPTER VIII.

THE MULTIPLICATION OF THE FIT IN RELATION TO THE STATE.


_The State's ideal in relation to the fertility of its subjects_.--_Keen
competition means great effort and great waste of life_.--_If in the
minds of the citizens space and food are ample multiplication works
automatically_.--_To New Zealanders food now includes the luxuries as
well as the necessities of life_.--_Men are driven to the alternative of
supporting a family of their own or a degenerate family of
defectives_.--_The State enforces the one but cannot enforce the
other_.--_New Zealand taxation_.--_The burden of the bread-winner_.--_As
the State lightens this burden it encourages fertility_.--_The survival
of the unfit makes the burden of the fit_.