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demanded, and in spite of your philanthropy and 

 mistaken kindness you shall serve as food, to stay for 

 a moment the hunger of that wretched and helpless 

 mob that your misguided sentiments called into a 

 larger existence. For, as Vergniaud said of the 

 execution of the Girondins : " The Ke volution, like 

 Saturn, is devouring its own children," so it may be 

 said of your sentiment that it will devour you and 

 yours. 



If, in defiance of the teachings of biological science, 

 modern sentiment persists in breeding and rearing a 

 helpless race that cannot by its own efforts satisfy its 

 hunger, or if it will persist in rearing a race that mani- 

 fests criminal and brutal instincts ; if, in order that 

 the lower democracy may be appeased, the unfit, 

 the sluggish, the lazy-rapacious, and the cunning 

 demagogues are in turn extolled, bribed, and main- 

 tained in life at the expense of the fit and worthy, 

 then England, in spite of her greater knowledge, has 

 commenced to follow the path that led to the destruc- 

 tion of Rome and Greece. 



If the ruling classes of this country, the Aristoc- 

 racy, have forgotten their duties, which is to face and 

 enforce the truth of their generation, or have lost 

 their courage, then it must fall to the more vigorous 

 and less sesthetic portion of the Intellectual Classes 

 to take their place. The danger is clear and eminent 

 enough. With the Lower Classes increasing their 

 birth-rate, while the Middle and Upper Classes are 

 remaining stationary ; with certain well-intentioned 

 but mistaken members of the higher social classes 



