William Allan Chapple

The Fertility of the Unfit William Allan Chapple

The spread of moral restraint as a check. Predicted byMalthus. The declining Birth rate. Its Universality. Most conspicuous in New Zealand. Great increase inproduction of food. With rising food rate falling birthrate. Malthus'schecks. His use of the term "moralrestraint." The growing desire to evade familyobligations. Spread of physiological knowledge. Alllimitation involves self restraint. Motives forlimitation. Those who do and those who do not limit. Poverty and the Birth rate. Defectives prolific andpropagate their kind. Moral restraint held to include allsexual interference designed to limit families. Power ofself control an attribute of the best citizens. Its absencean attribute of the worst. Humanitarianism increasesthe number and protects the lives of defectives. Theratio of the unfit to the fit. Its dangers to the State. Antiquity of the problem. The teaching of theancients. Surgical methods already advocated.