[444] Cf.  Dr. Max Hirsch, Sexual-Probleme, Jan., 1908, p. 23.

[445] Bausset (op. cit.) sets forth various social measures for the care of pregnant and child-bearing women, which would tend to lessen criminal abortion.

[446] Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, vol. i, p. 564.

[447] F.E.  Daniel, President of the State Medical Association of Texas, “Should Insane Criminals or Sexual Perverts be Allowed to Procreate?” Medico-legal Journal, Dec., 1893; id., “The Cause and Prevention of Rape,” Texas Medical Journal, May, 1904.

[448] P. Naecke, “Die Kastration bei gewissen Klassen von Degenerirten als ein Wirksamer Socialer Schutz,” Archiv fuer Kriminal-Anthropologie, Bd.  III, 1899, p. 58; id.  “Kastration in Gewissen Faellen von Geisteskrankheit,” Psychiatrisch-Neurologische Wochenschrift, 1905, No. 29.

[449] Angelo Zuccarelli, “Asessualizzazione o sterilizzazione dei Degenerati,” L’Anomalo, 1898-99, No. 6; id., “Sur la necessite et sur les Moyens d’empecher la Reproduction des Hommes les plus Degeneres,” International Congress Criminal Anthropology, Amsterdam, 1901.

[450] Naecke, Neurologisches Centralblatt, March 1, 1909.  The original account of these operations is reproduced in the Psychiatrisch-Neurologische Wochenschrift, No. 2, 1909, with an approving comment by the editor, Dr. Bresler.  As regards castration in America, see Flood, “Castration of Idiot Children,” American Journal Psychology, Jan., 1899; also, Alienist and Neurologist, Aug., 1909, p. 348.

[451] It is probable that castration may prove especially advantageous in the case of the feeble-minded.  “In Somersetshire,” says Tredgold ("The Feeble-Mind as a Social Danger,” Eugenics Review, July, 1909), “I found that out of a total number of 167 feeble-minded women, nearly two-fifths (61) had given birth to children, for the most part illegitimate.  Moreover, it is not uncommon, but, rather the rule, for these poor girls to be admitted into the workhouse maternity wards again and again, and the average number of offspring to each one of them is probably three or four, although even six is not uncommon.”  In his work on Mental Deficiency (pp. 288-292) the same author shows that propagation by the mentally deficient is, in England, “both a terrible and extensive evil.”

[452] This example is brought forward by Ledermann, “Skin Diseases and Marriage,” in Senator and Kaminer, Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage.

[453] I may here again refer to Lea’s instructive History of Sacerdotal Celibacy.

[454] In England, 35,000 applicants for admission to the navy are annually rejected, and although the physical requirements for enlistment in the army are nowadays extremely moderate, it is estimated by General Maurice that at least sixty per cent. of recruits and would-be recruits are dismissed as unfit. (See e.g., William Coates, “The Duty of the Medical Profession in the Prevention of National Deterioration,” British Medical Journal, May 1, 1909.) It can scarcely be claimed that men who are not good enough for the army are good enough for the great task of creating the future race.