Note CG — Chapter XX · RULES OF EUGENICS

What are a few generations in the history of humanity? One to two centuries represent only a short space of time. Prostitution is older than history. The Hammurabi codex, paragraph 100, has already rules about Hierodules, or girls consecrated to the service of Venus. Moses, Deuteronomy xxiii, 18, commands: “There shall be no temple prostitute of the daughters of Israel.” Still prostitution existed among the Jews as seen by I. Regum, xiv, 24; xv, 12; xxii, 46; II. Regum, xxiii, 7; Amos, ii, 7; Hosea, iv, 14. At this point the prophet distinguishes between the common and the temple prostitute. If such an ancient institution could be banished from this earth by eugenics within a few centuries, humanity could be satisfied.