The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-03

ana more ldVOF9DI0s lie average uuId
ton of human lite is increasing. and the
plaques and fevers that formerly
scourged the world and kept the pops
ulation low are being brought under
troll, if not entirely stamped out. The
tendency of civilization is toward arbi>
tration instead of war, and so that means
of keeping down the number of human
swarms is likely to be lessoned rather
than increased and the same may be
said of The increasing abolition of per-
sonal strife and individual murder. The
means so frequently resorted to by
crowded peoples heretofore to keep the
natural increase within bounds-the
general destruction of infants grows
more and more abhorrent to human in.
stincts, and is not likely to be revived;
certainly not by the people of the higher
types that are destined to inherit the
earth. The multiplication of facilities
for transporting food incident to modern
civilization, with its improved agricul-
ture, combine to make the famines once
so frequent and destructive of life more
and more rare, more and more impossl-
BILE. The great scourges of humanity
pestilence, famine. war, and murder, do
nestle and social-are thus clearly on the
wane; and as no substitution for them
can be foreseen, there is no reason to
inter that the present rapid increase in
the earth's population is likely to be stay
ed bv natural means. Such being the
case, the earth sustaining capacity will
be reached before the race is many cen
turtles older
What then? Will the f1ttest survive ?
If natural selection were the law with
most probably be the result; but it is
not. That is, not wholly. Under the
influence of charity and other religious
sentiments, it is usually the weakest,
often the worst, that is most favored In
the struggle tor existence. The burdens
OF social and political life fall chiefly up>
on the worthy, who have to support not
only themselves and their offspring, but
the idle and vicious and their multitu-
dinous spawn. The artificial selection
which religions, governments, and So
cieties chiefly foster tells steadily against
the best The sense of responsibility
which the struggle for existence creates
in the minds Of the thoughtful tends in
the same direction, in putting q check
upon the natural increase of the higher
orders OF humanity while the needless
animalism OF the unthinking and the
vicious, Oh the contrary, leaves them
free to multiply with stint, and the su-
perior life power of the higher is no
match in the long run tor the unrestricted
fertility of the lower. Our civilization,
like all those which have preceded it,
thus carries in itself the elements of its
own ultimate destruction; or, at the
least, elements which make its over
throw possible at any moment, by Gauss
ing the lower grades OF culture to pre-
ponderate in numbers and political
power. This, of course, on condition
that human societies through future
ages to be regulated by the social
: laws which now prevail; a condition,
which we are happy to believe, must
sooner or later cease to hold. The dam
ger is too serious, and the enlightening
influence of Science too persuasive. AL.
ready there is growing disposition or
the part of intelligent lovers Of human
| ity TO break away from the unscientifie
customs that have come down to u:
from barbaric ancestors ;and the instinct
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, ical change in many of them, particularly
r those which determine our treatment o
[ the physically and morally tainted
r Preventive measures are rising more ant
more above those that are palliative ant
remedied charity is becoming broader
and more far seeing the rights of futnr'
generations begin to weigh against thu
privileges of the present; and there il
t infinite promise OF good in the change
1t would be sheer presumption ant
foolishness to predict specifically the is
sues Of conditions SO complicated .
) those OF existing humanity; but having
, in view the intensifying struggle for ex
: istence in store for future generations
!. and knowing the immense advantas
= which pure and high race must Away
= have over lower races, it is safe enoug
!. to predict that the ultimate dominion Q
: the world will rest with that people
: whether black, yellow. or white. whc
> will so shape its political and social sys
/ tenn as to rigidly favor the perpetnatlo
s Of its best-which will studiously elimi
nate every serious moral or physica
faint from it's stem. As all canno
q survive, it is becoming more and NOR
. the duty of humanity to elect wisel
: which shall survive, the good or the bad
or more correctly, perhaps, whether tn
!, chances OF any unborn generation are i
!. favor of physical and moral health, Q
:. the contrary. To favor the former doe
not imply or necessitate the destructio
. of any life: but it does neeessitat
q such an reference with individual libel
: ty as shall restrain the vicious and tn
. diseased from being over represented
? generations to be; and the time ma
). come when i. will be vitality necessar
a TO prevent such debasing elements frol
Z being represented at all. At any rate.
r is clear that, whatever nigh grade, pee
PIE first rises to the moral level OF apply
o ing proper system of artificial seie'
!, ton to humanity, and steadily puriiis
+ its stock by eliminating vitiating strain:
. criminal or otherwise. that will lead tn
! world to civilization and power. 1t wi
= do more it will retain that Leadership
and develop type OF humanity whic
|. will endure and improve as long as II
: earth remains habitable. Ali Other
: contain the seeds of their own destrut