Show INFECUNDITY HAS COME TO STAY As a contribution to the race suicide sui-cide discussion Dr George Engelmann of Boston writes In the Popular Science Monthly a refutation of the commonly received doctrine that education tends to Infertility On the contrary he fn son s-on a full investigation of the subject that tho data now available Indicate that the highly educated male element does more toward reproducing Itself than any other large group of our native na-tive population Which Is good so far as It goes but lacks completeness The Imputation has not been so much against the male as against the female college graduate and whllo the former Is fairly vindicated the latter Is not reported upon by this learned doctor Indeed lie vindicates the male at the inferential blame of the female finding the cause of InfecundIty in wealth luxury and social ambition And in this ho Is no doubt quite correct It is tho refusal of the women to bear children that Is at the root of the whole matter This Is practically confessed by the women writers of the day The Wo mans Journal for Instance flatly h ex cuses parents tOt not desiring children which they cannot well care for and declares that quality not quantity Is the real need which in a way is true but it would be better to have it quality and quantity For as everyone every-one knows with the decline of quality qual-ity in numbers the state necessarily nec-essarily falls into the control of quantity and civilization is lowered progress retarded or stopped and the world retrogrades Quality Is ineffectual in-effectual to stop It unless It has quantity quan-tity also and Is overborne and carried backward by sheer weight of numbers and by wi environment that Is hostile onmel by hste I to the working of Its natural proclivities proclivi-ties All pleas for quality are mere confessions con-fessions of unwillingness to procreate they are aside from the main question so far as logic and argument arc concerned con-cerned but so far as practical result and determination are concerned they are so tremendously effective that they create maintain and increasingly enforce en-force the very conditions against which complaint Is made And no arguments no protests will be of any avail so long as the American women remain of the mind they arc today I |