98 W. CUNNINGHAM^ D.D., CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM. 



clad in defensive armour and using hand-to-hand weapons. Courage, 

 skill and discipline combined, contribute now in peace as of old in 

 war, to the safety of the warrior who, returning in safety and 

 honour, claimed the hand of the maiden he loved. 



Now, the mere fact of an unemployable having a wife of like 

 character and a family (such families are usually large) of children 

 probably morfe degenerate than their parents, is thought by many 

 sentimentalists to give such unemployable a right to permanent 

 employment. 



To animals, God said, " Be fruitful and multiply " ; but nature 

 destroys the unfit ; and if food is scarce, the stronger let the weaker 

 starve. 



To man God says, " Increase and multiply, and replenish the 

 earth and subdue it." This is two-fold, joined together l)y God, and 

 recognised by many heathens. 



If, then, men will only act as animals, I do not see that Christians, 

 acting in their national capacity, are justified in bolstering up such 

 to swamp the nation with undesirables who may, by intermarriage 

 with better stocks, deteriorate the whole nation. Such bolstering 

 up can only end in national bankruptcy, moral and financial. 



In my judgment, honourable imprisonment for life, with complete 

 segregation from the other sex, is the only remedy for this evil. 

 Such a course should eutail no great hardship, for it is well known 

 to phrenologists that the sexual instinct (" increase and multiply ") 

 is closely allied to the driving faculties ("replenish the earth "). 



There are doubtless other causes operating connected with the 

 land, feudal rights divorced from feudal duties ; the laws of succession 

 which, in England, are not in accordance with God's Old Testament 

 laws as regards estate, either real or personal ; and perhaps other 

 disagreeable hard facts ; all of which must be faced. 



