The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1914-06-12

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Lester Ward declares that aversion
In the relations between man and
woman means that their union will r.
suit In some defect or imperfection In
the offspring. And our knowledge Of
the laws Of heredity and Of environ.
ment prove this must BE- true.
Environment counts for fully % per
cent In the development Of the indi.
vidual. and . family distraught By
pickering. misunderstanding. and the
lack Of mutual consideration and for
bearance. cannot well b. considered
favorable environmeut In which to d.
velop normal childrsn.
Sex selection and the survival OF the
ffttest appears to have bssn rssponsi-
BILE for the courss Of human evolution
up to the time Of the ancient Oreekb.
and II the frasmsnts Of that early civil
iization indicate anything. obviously
they indicate . plane Of pure and log
ical thought Ne have yet to attain.
Sex selection means the choice Of
superior mates. and therefore the pro
duction Of superior qualities In pos
terity. Free. natural selection has
been the uplifting power that has Do
veloped and conserved the race. The
primitive selection inspired by natural
Instinct and maintained by strong
arms and . stone club undoubtedly
bred men and women relatively superb
or to many Of today. and vastly superb
or to those certain to result from like
number Of generations with choice
largely governed by the power Of
property accumulated through more or
less devious methods.
What 10 there In all recorded his
tory that We can point to in evidence
0f our ability to improve on the forces
that brought M from the primal cell
to Thales. Ansximander. Hippocrates
and Euclid. intsllects that still actuats
the minds Of men after more than
twenty centuries?
Granting that beings vary among
themselves generation after genera
ton. granting only the At survive.
granting the survivors tend to trans.
init their qualities. then II follows that
evolution 10 now going on and that We
are either ascending or descending.
We know II to be within our power
to = n either direction. and therefore
thai Ne can develop . vastly superior
and , happier race In . few genera
lions II We will to do So But what
rational steps are being taken to this
end? We laugh At the childish ef.
forts to stay natural forces by I'M
periaf>or legislative edict recorded in
earlier ages: but are recent legisla.
tive enactments In the name Of Gu.
0enics any more logical or do they
k.Gpise to be any more effective than
\r0r Caligula's command that the
tids eeass 70 ri's'
The simple and disagreeable truth
10 that modern business has destroyed
the fundamental principle Of natural
selection. Making women economic
ally dependent on men eliminates the
lifting power OF woman's choice-and
there can be no choice without free.
dom and no freedom except It be
grounded In economic Independence.
Because Of woman's dependence and
humanitys mental. sympathetic and
social refinements, the fundamental
principles Of natural selection and the
survival OF the fittest" through the
struggle for existence have been
forced into the background. creating an
artificial condition certain to be cor.
rected by self-destruction. Hence
this cry for eugenics.
Eugenics cannot become . vital
power 10 any nation until . sufiicient
body Of the people become imbued
with the true principles, and this 10 .
condition impossible to attain through
legislation. and II only to be achieved
BY individual effort and mental and
physical development. No sane par.
ents will knowingly deliberately con.
denim their children or their children's
children to poverty. the insane asy'
lum or worse: and the means Of pre-
vention lie In knowledge.
II every child we're given . prae-
teal working knowledge Of physics.
chemistry and biology. studies that
furnish material for true thought and
fundamental understanding. the pres.
ent unhealthy condition would auto.
matically correct itself. and thsrs
would b no more talk Of sussnics.
HGRGoiTv.
irving Fishse n United G ates sen.
ate document No. tis. National Vital.