ontrary to the genesis of self-preservation, while motherhood is
its basic necessity. When public opinion is educated in the essentials of
eugenics much of this can be, and will be diverted to a nobler purpose. The
total cost necessary to ensure the adequate care of dependent [19]
motherhood would be a mere fraction of the national expenditure, and not a
tithe of what we spend in pension allowances yearly. The latter is regarded
as an honorable debt and is at best the direct product of a decadent ideal,
while motherhood constitutes the very germ of the only altruistic idealism
for all the future.

We concede, therefore, that the children and the mothers must be provided
for, not only as a product of the true construction of the ethics of
sociology, but in obedience to the fundamental law of a moral system of
eugenics. We must go further and assert that children must be cared for
through the mother. It has been the practice to divorce the improvident
mother from her dependent children. This has been demonstrated to be not
only an altruistic fallacy. It has proved to be an economic blunder.

There is another type of evil which largely menaces the eugenic ideal of
motherhood. It is those cases where married women who have children are
compelled to be the bread winners of the family as well as its mothers. No
woman can earn support for herself and children outside of her home and
competently assume the responsibilities of motherhood at the same time.
Whatever aid a mother renders to the state, as a result of effort in
factory or shop, is of infinitely less value, from an economic standpoint,
than her contribution as mother in caring for her own children in her own
home. A careful study of infant mortality, and the conditions of child
life, so far as survival value is concerned, condemns in the strongest and
most vital sense this whole practice. The preservation of the race is the
essential requisite, and it is the vital industry of any people. Any
seeming economic necessity which destroys that industry is one that will
contribute largely to the downfall of the people as a race.

EUGENICS AND THE HUSBAND.--The question of the husband's moral and parental
obligation, as dictated by the marriage institution and constitution, may
be left out of this discussion. We may assert, however, that we do not
believe the eugenic principle intends, in devising ways and means for [20]
the adequate protection, in its completest se