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Excerpt from Race Culture: Or Race Suicide? (A Plea for the Unborn)
To those who are constantly attempting to soothe the public ear to the cry of our poor degenerate Class, and who foolishly tell the public that all is well, I would point out that mental and physical diseases are on the increase; the number Of lunatics, idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded, epileptic, and mentally backward children is increasing;the suicide and attempted suicide rates are increasing; the amount of money spent upon alcohol is increasing; the number Of juvenile criminals increases and will increase; nervous diseases are on the increase; prostitution, and especially clandestine prostitution, increases; the infant death-rate is a national disgrace; married women are gradually fighting shy of maternity, while many refuse to suckle their children; criminal abortion is on the increase, and checks to impregnation; the number Of drunkards, and especially Of drunken women, increases; the annual reports of the inspector-general of Recruiting for the Army Show an increase in the number rejected; we encourage lunatics and other degenerates to marry and to beget Children, with a painful disregard for the coming race; we forbid many healthy men and women to marry; we permit the insane discharged from asylums to resume marital relations, or to be married; the number Of hospitals and hospital patients increases, while a general desire to treat our lives as ajoke, instead Of looking upon it as a great and prolonged battle, is permeating all classes in our country; worst Sign of all - the majority seem to think that mere commercial progress is the only kind Of progress worth paying any attention to. I would rather see a country healthy and poor than diseased and wealthy. The eternal struggle for wealth is slowly but surely blind ing our eyes to existing conditions.
I have been told by my friends that a social Hercules is required to write upon the subjects treated of in this work. I do not think so, because I believe there will always be a sufficient number of good men and women who will agree with the majority Of my suggestions. I have kept before me the beautiful words of an eminent judge, the late Sir James F. Stephen, who said, Let us dream no dreams and tell no lies, but go on our way, wherever it may lead us, with our eyes open and our heads erect. If death ends all, we cannot meet it better If not, let us enter, whatever be the next scene, like honest men, with no Sophistry in our mouths and no masks on our faces.
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