Owing to an unwise system of generation, and being unable,
through an adverse and unnatural so-called civilization, to
obtain sufficient work to maintain himself and children, or
outlet to where he could do so, he is necessarily driven
to compete within himself to the utmost, most merciless
stretch of fury ; hence all our present troubles. All rule and
order in marriage — that which of all terrestrial matters most
affects all human life, especially under such unnatural condi-
tions as we are now living — are completely cast aside as of no
importance. From this arises what we are pleased to term the
survival of the fittest. Thousands upon thousands of miser-
able babies are born tired, merely to die almost immediately —
poor weakened infants who ought not to have been conceived ;
some drag out a few years of more or less pain, and then
perish; others grow up to struggle in the general scramble,
they themselves to be soon overcome and go under. The
strongest only survive; and this cruel, inhuman, merciless
system is called " weeding-out," " nature at work," " the survival
of the fittest." It is considered quite the proper course. All
this human wreckage cast upon the earth is only the working of
a beneficent nature. It is too absurd. If it was not truly
awful in its results, the system might be termed sheer waste.
