Are We a Declining Race ? 



their freedom into license, a change which has 

 borne fruit, in the present age, in the form of 

 sexual irregularities and dislike to marriage, 

 and that when they enter that state their duties 

 as workers prevent them performing those of 

 mothers." 



Here are a few official opinions cited in the 

 Report : 



"Monogamy has increased the work of the 

 women. They did not, perhaps, like all things 

 connected with a state of polygamy ; but on the 

 whole, I believe, they like the incessant work 

 entailed by monogamic life still less. 



" The law and that which Mr. Blythe, a little 

 oddly, perhaps, describes as * Missionary Mono- 

 gamy,' has altered this state of things. 



" The wife has now to work at all times for her 

 husband. She has, so she says, no rest, and that 

 which she hates still more than work, is the 

 advances of her spouse, whether while enceinte 

 or nursing. 



" The man abhors being tied to a woman. . . . 

 To both parties the idea is as repugnant as can 

 possibly be conceived. If the man's advances 

 are, however, persistent, the woman neglects her 

 child, and says the husband is killing it." 



In another part of the Report there is mention 

 made of a vice, which although common enough 

 in European and Oriental countries, was, I 

 believe, unknown to these people formerly : 

 " One writer states that the use of tobacco 

 (coupled with the practice of self-abuse) by men, 

 women, boys, and girls, is the most potent factor 

 affecting the decrease of population." 

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