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the highest ideal. This can be so only if women accept the task which na- 

 ture has imposed upon them; the care of their offspring, the community, to- 

 morrow's population. 



23. Not only the women but the men must also be induced to desire a larger 

 number of children whenever the chances of bringing gifted children into the 

 world are at least greater than the average probability. 



There must be a complete change effected in public opinion. Both men 

 and women must again learn to desire to have several children. In every 

 country every available means should be pressed into the service of a suit- 

 able and extensive propaganda. Our investigations and their results should 

 convince not only the leaders of the feminist movement of the great impor- 

 tance of practical positive eugenics for succeeding generations, i.e., the popu- 

 lation, the world's future citizens. The leading political men should also 

 be made to realise that eugenics represents a powerful instrument for the 

 nation's future in the struggle for existence. 



24. It is imperative that the attention of the gifted be drawn to the importance 

 of marrying at an early age in connection with the number of children. 



Statistics show that, especially as regards the female section of the popu- 

 lation, the younger a woman is when she marries, the more children she is 

 likely to have. 



25. Owing to the fact that the gifted just because they are so gifted cannot gain 

 their ends without going through a long period of study, they can start exercising 

 their profession and therefore get married only at a relatively advanced age. 



This could be avoided by reducing the period of study for the intellectually 

 superior since they usually learn more quickly than the others. 



26. In so far as these gifted people will find paid employment later on, their 

 initial salary can be higher than the one generally paid, for we know that they 

 are above the average and that more may be expected of them so that a higher sal- 

 ary is justiHed. 



And in so far as they choose a liberal profession the fact that they are known 

 to have been talented pupils will enable them to earn more than others. 



Once business men when selecting their staff both in the higher and the 

 lower ranks can rely on such a sure recommendation as that of a successful 

 course at a school for the gifted, the latter will undoubtedly always have a 

 big advantage over other applicants who did not attend such a school. 



27. The large number of unmarried persons among the gifted must be kept in 

 check. 



It is quite certain that very often people do not marry owing to physical 

 or mental deviation, which they regard as a bar to marriage. But many 

 others, both men and women, remain single for quite different reasons. For 



