been often realized already by men and women of better
quality. It is, therefore, necessary to act on the children, both by
education and selection, in order to obtain a youth of superior
quality.

Let us not abandon the future of our race to the fatalism of Allah;
let us create it ourselves!

FOOTNOTES:

[10] It is true that the friendly union of individuals of the same sex
is often fundamentally derived from the phylogenetic development of
animal or human societies. But the sentiments of sympathy, on the sole
basis of which such friendly unions may be developed, are only
themselves the derivatives of the more primitive sentiments of
sympathy of one individual for another, and these latter have
originated in sexual attraction.

CHAPTER XVI

THE SEXUAL QUESTION IN POLITICS AND IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Power and money have always been the principal aims of politics.
Political economy is a science which deals with the great family of
nations and their conditions of existence. Based on history,
statistics and observation, it seeks for the laws which govern the
production, consumption and division of goods, labor and its products,
the social organization of nations, their health, the increase or
decrease of the population, the death-rate, birth-rate, etc.

I cannot here enter into the details of the domestic economy of the
nation, as this is beyond my province. I may, however, point out that
this science has too much neglected the natural sciences, owing to its
traditional connection with politics.

In 1881 Cognetti de Martiis[11] had already attempted to apply the
ideas of evolution to political economy. Recently, Prof. Eugene
Schwiedland of Vienna treated the same subject in an interesting study
of the ideas of want and desire in human psychology.[12] So far, it is
only the quantity and not the quality of men which has been taken into
account, originating from the false idea that man made in God's image
can only come into the world in a perfect state. If he was often
malformed in body and mind, this was the fault of his sins. Even
hereditary degeneration to the third and fourth generation was
considered as divine punishment for the sins of the fathers on the
children.

=War.=--The despots of olden times, like those of to-day, have always
regarded men as instruments of their ambition or even as food for
cannon. When Napoleon I established a bounty for large families, he
was no doubt thinking of the numbe