Note CI — Chapter XX · RULES OF EUGENICS

These conditions are now noticed even in our young country, where not only the native of the Anglo-Saxon stock sets a limit to his offspring but also the immigrant, who begins the same practices as soon as he has reached a higher step of the social ladder. The same Russian Jewess who in her native country set her pride to follow the religious dictates of her race to increase and multiply, the same Italian or Irish woman who in her native country would not have thought of defying the tenets of the Catholic church regarding the limitation of offspring, will ask her physician for some anti-conceptional remedy, as soon as she has reached a certain degree of affluence. With wealth and power come love for luxury and ease, and the consequence is the limitation of the offspring.