He believed that by the year 2100 eugenics
would be “universally established” as a system of weeding out
undesirable people from the population.
The year 2100 will see eugenics
universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of
the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s
new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of
nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race
is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the
deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries
and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and
the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists
is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is
not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century
from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person
eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
