Tasteless policy of multiplying without any regard for quality or psychophysical desirability

Civilised society seems to have become inured and indifferent to our tasteless policy of multiplying without any regard for quality or psychophysical desirability. Nor does it look as if, with soft sentimental humanitarianism everywhere paramount, any improvement in the human stocks of the West is at all likely. On the contrary, we can expect only a general deterioration of human health, stamina and intelligence. Only the great wars for food and living space now looming on the distant horizon—wars which will be fought with unprecedented bitterness, brutality and determination—may possibly offer a remedy for this state of affairs. Because if, in the extremity of its suffering during these wars, overcrowded mankind recovers some of its pristine wisdom regarding human rubbish, it may cease to cherish and maintain the diseased and defective at the cost of the sound and healthy, and a eugenic outlook may at last be forced willy-nilly upon Western peoples demented by centuries of the romanticism and false doctrine inculcated by Christianity and liberalism.

Ludovici