The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-19
The Wicked


to Regulate Love and Marriage.
universally rejected; the chemically diseased
or the weak in intellect would also usually re. 7,
main unmarried at least till au advanced
period Of life; while those who show any ten 4
dency to insanity or exhibited any congenitaI
deformty would also be rejected by the
younger women, because 1t would be consfd-
cred an offence against society to be the meals
or perpetuattng any such. diseases or imper.
fections
There are some. no doubt, who will object
'""inr!i have free choice,
owing to improved economic conditions thay
Will not choose wisely so as to advance the
race. But no one has the right to make sud-,
statement without adducng very strong esi-
dence in support of it. We have for genera
lions degraded women in every possible way: L
out we now know that such degradation Is not
hereditary, and therefore not permanent The
great philosopher and seer, Swedenborg de-
ciareo that whereas men loved justice wisdom
and power for their own sakes, women loyet,
them as seen in the characters of men It6fs
generally admitted that there is truth in thia
observation; but there is surely still more tr,,th
In the converse, that they do not admire those
men who are palpably unjust stupid or weak
anu SUI Tess those who are distorted, diseased.
dltlons they often driven to marry thor, SS
IL may be taken as certain, therefore that
when women are economically and SOCIALLY
tree to choose, numbers of the worst mon
imSng all classes who now readily obtain
wives will be almost universally ret.c+.a
NOW this mode of Improvement by elimfn.
alton of the less desirable has rno,v aa,,.sI
ages over that OF securing early maria oaa p,
the more admired; for what we most reo,,isa
10 10 improve the average Of our population
ny rejecting Its lower types rather than hv
raising the advanced types little hiehar
Hieat ana good men are always produced In q
suhlcient numbers and have always been "a S
produced IN every phase of civilization We
90 not need more OF these SO much as ~.
want dm1nution of the weaker and Iess ~.
Vanced types. This weedingout nrocess 10. s.
peen the method of natural selection nv ,vb,nH
the "hoe Oh the glorious vegetable and animal 9
Kingdoms have been developed and advanca,, &
me survival OF the fttest is really the exttnc
uoh OF the unit; and it is the one brilliant raw
VI nope ior humanity that Just as we advance
III Inc reform OF our. present cruel and dtsas.
trous social system, we shall set freq a move, Il
or selection in marriage that will staadtIs
R.d certainly improve the character II
we'll as the strength and the beartv -
race. ~ 49, - s.
have now, I venture to hone. estab,isbaa
TWO important principles in relation to hnmaH
progress. In the first place. have shown that q
moaern IDEAS as to the necessity OF dealing
o'rec'y with some of our glazing social seyiyH
such as race degeneration and the yarioua
forms OF sexual immortality, are fundamerf alI0
wrong and are doomed to failure so long al
thelr fundamental causes-widespread poverty ia
restitution and staryation-are not CREATE *
diminished and ultimately abolished / haya
proved that human nature is not In itself such 81
a complete failure as our modern euxenista U
seem to suppose, but that 1t is influenced BY
fundamental laws which under reasonably just $
ana equal economic conditions will atitonSat. Y
icaly abolish all these evils ~
The foregoing statement OF the effect OF al. sg
tablshed natural laws, IL allowed free play
under rational conditions of civilization clear.
~ indicates that the position OF woman In thu
not distant future will be far higher anu :!lore
important than any which has been claimed ss
for or by her in the past. s
With everincreaslng approach to equality %
OF opportunity for every child born In our y
country, that terrible excess OF male deaths M
in boyhood and early manhood especially, die VS.
and change the present majority OF women to 4.
a majority of men. This will lead TO i greater 81
rivalry for wives. and will give to women tho
power Of rejecting all the lower types Of Char.
acter5 among their suitors. us
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