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the State of such a system, if widely adopted, would be so 

 great that rigid precautions would have to be taken to 

 ensure that no public expenditure was wasted in an attempt 

 to push young people higher up the educational ladder than 

 they are capable of mounting. Any increase of taxation 

 would, moreover, make the taxpayers feel poorer ; and it 

 would, therefore, for an indefinite period, reduce the size 

 of the families of some of the best stocks. Expenditure on 

 education must not be increased without limit. Taxation 

 should always be kept at a moderate level, and should be 

 changed as little as possible. 



AD these methods of increasing the size of families by 

 lessening the strain on parents, thus making it easier for 

 them to live up to the standard of their class, should as far 

 as possible be made applicable to all well-paid workmen, 

 artizans, professional and business men. This would cer- 

 tainly help to maintain the quality of our nation in the 

 future. But it would only be a help. Unjustifiable social 

 ambition is the main cause of the small families of persons 

 of good stock. Success in the field of eugenics will mainly 

 depend on the moral aspirations and the sense of patriotism 

 of the mass of the people being aroused in the right 

 directions. 



