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PATERNAL SIDE. MATERNAL SIDE.
F /
i | Grandfather, a drunkard Grandmother, "odd"
r | Grandmother, normal Grandfather, normal
s |
G t \
e
n S / Uncle, a drunkard Uncle, epileptic
e e | Uncle, a drunkard Uncle, rheumatic, totally
r c | crippled and his daughter also
a o | Uncle, an epileptic Uncle, rheumatic
t n | Aunt, rheumatic
i d \ Father, excitable & irritable Mother, died in asylum
o
n T / Daughter, has had rheumatism and has had heart disease
s h | Son, now insane
i | Son, died a few days old of convulsions
r | Son, now a chronic maniac in an asylum
d | Daughter, suicidal, melancholic; died in an asylum. No issue.
\ Family now extinct.
* * * * *
CASE No. 8, p. 303.
S. M----'s FAMILY.
M F
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Asthmatic | Somewhat weak-minded
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1 23456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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Healthy Died in Drowned Epilepsy Healthy Idiot Died in Healthy |
infancy infancy |
in in Scrofulous
convulsions convulsions
_The above diagrammatic histories of eight families are taken from Dr.
Strahan's "Marriage and Disease."_
CHAPTER VIII.
THE MULTIPLICATION OF THE FIT IN RELATION TO THE STATE.
_The State's ideal in relation to the fertility of its subjects_.--_Keen
competition means great effort and great waste of life_.--_If in the
minds of the citizens space and food are ample multiplication works
automatically_.--_To New Zealanders food now includes the luxuries as
well as the necessities of life_.--_Men are driven to the alternative of
supporting a family of their own or a degenerate family of
defectives_.--_The State enforces the one but cannot enforce the
other_.--_New Zealand taxation_.--_The burden of the bread-winner_.--_As
the State lightens this burden it encourages fertility_.--_The survival
of the unfit makes the burden of the fit_.
The multiplication of the fit is of the first importance to the State.
It supplies competent producers and courageous defenders, and the more
of these, consistent with space and food (using these terms in their
fullest significance), the better off the State.
If healthy happy citizens are the State's ideal, then limitation of
population well within the space and food will be encouraged. If
national wealth and prosperity in its material aspect are the State's
ideal, the harder the population presses on the means of subsistence the
sooner will that ideal be realised. For it cannot be denied, that the
greater the stress and hardship in life, the more strenuous the effort
put forth to obtain a foothold. The greater the competition the keener
the effort, and the higher the accomplishment; while to ensure an
adequate supply of labour in time of great demand there must always be a
surplus.
The waste of life must always be greater; but what of that! National
wealth is the ideal--the maximum amount of production. Child labour, and
women labour, are called in to fill the national granaries, though
misery and death attend the process.
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