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be immensely modified. The stability of 

 the nation depends essentially on the fitter 

 stock being given sensibly greater fertility 

 than the unfit stock. 



As things stand at present, neglecting the 

 laws of inheritance, we are slipping down an 

 incline with increasing speed. A sense of 

 responsibility and of desire for comfort and 

 leisure is leading to an ever diminishing 

 birth-rate of the folk with mens sana in cor- 

 pore sano, and we have, on the other hand, 

 provided unlimited medical comforts and 

 housing for the physically unfit and for the 

 rogue. Whether knowledge of what is going 

 on can possibly bring about a change of 

 feeling I cannot say. If it does not, and 

 we leave the fertile, but unfit, one-sixth to 

 reproduce one-half the next generation, our 

 nation will soon cease to be a world power. 



The problem is simple in the extreme. 

 We have two groups in the community one 

 parasitic to the other. The latter thinks of 

 to-morrow and is childless, the former takes 

 no thought and multiplies. It can only 

 end as the case so often ends the parasite 

 will kill its host, and so end the tale for both 

 alike. 



THE END 



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