{"product_id":"2940014187404","title":"The Fertility Of The Unfit","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.--THE PROBLEM STATED      p. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe spread of moral restraint as a check.--Predicted by Malthus.--The\u003cbr\u003edeclining Birth-rate.--Its Universality.--Most conspicuous in New\u003cbr\u003eZealand. Great increase in production of food.--With rising food\u003cbr\u003erate falling birth-rate.--Malthus's checks.--His use of the term\u003cbr\u003e\"moral restraint.\"--The growing desire to evade family\u003cbr\u003eobligations.--Spread of physiological knowledge.--All limitation\u003cbr\u003einvolves self-restraint.--Motives for limitation.--Those who do and\u003cbr\u003ethose who do not limit.--Poverty and the Birth-rate.--Defectives\u003cbr\u003eprolific and propagate their kind.--Moral restraint held to include\u003cbr\u003eall sexual interference designed to limit families.--Power of\u003cbr\u003eself-control an attribute of the best citizens.--Its absence an\u003cbr\u003eattribute of the worst.--Humanitarianism increases the number and\u003cbr\u003eprotects the lives of defectives.--The ratio of the unfit to the\u003cbr\u003efit.--Its dangers to the State.--Antiquity of the problem.--The\u003cbr\u003eteaching of the ancients.--Surgical methods already advocated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.--THE POPULATION QUESTION     p. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe teaching of Aristotle and Plato.--The teaching of Malthus.--His\u003cbr\u003eassailants.--Their illogical position.--Bonar on Malthus and his\u003cbr\u003ework.--The increase of food supplies held by Nitti to refute Malthus.--The\u003cbr\u003eincrease of food and the decrease of births.--Mr. Spencer's biological\u003cbr\u003etheory--Maximum birth-rate determined by female capacity to bear\u003cbr\u003echildren.--The pessimism of Spencer's law.--Wider definition of moral\u003cbr\u003erestraint.--Where Malthus failed to anticipate the future.--Economic law\u003cbr\u003eoperative only through biological law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.--DECLINING BIRTH-RATE       p. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeclining birth-rates rapid and persistent.--Food cost in New\u003cbr\u003eZealand.--Relation of birth-rate to prosperity before and after\u003cbr\u003e1877.--Neo-Malthusian propaganda.--Marriage rates and fecundity of\u003cbr\u003emarriage.--Statistics of Hearts of Oak Friendly Society.--Deliberate\u003cbr\u003edesire of parents to limit family increase.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069172334832,"sku":"2940014187404","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014187404_p0.jpg?v=1763602808","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014187404","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}