The Population Question. [September, 
5^0 
Fq milies of the wealthy are generally smallei than those 
hT ooor In Britain the fadt that what will maintain one 
pe ,s° n knowif'and'ahted “upon. 
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exclusive title of “ the People ’’-with a .capital P. The 
mrSe d °ut?i r i h^seet’ws" way to^hf resTeftable main- 
tenance of a family. The “ British workman ‘oo^nemlly 
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^Hence^he more intelligent portion of the community— 
those who possess and are capable of transmittmgto 1 theii 
c^mTgTefatively 5 le“ 
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still refuse to recognise them, and would he encouia b ed 
^Thl" praakal fasufthenfstBy what spells car , the re- 
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have a rather injurious bearing upon those who give it thei 
ad The?e n seems to be still a principal defedt in Malthusianism 
as taught both by its original and its more recent advocates 
It seems to ignore the truths which have been fought into 
prominence by Mr. Galton under the name of Eugenism. 
Pertain States we are told, in the work before us, permit no 
one to marry unless he can show that he i has a fair prospeht 
of being able to maintain a family. i o this the ■L'ocior 
of Medfcine ” objects, merely on the ground that such laws 
“ prohibit marriages instead of prohibiting fa “ 'j 1 es ’ 
to alfclasses^o^sociSy first step 
towards regulating not merely the quantity, but the qua lty 
r P opulatfon, be S to prohibit the marriage of all persons, 
