CHAPTER VII.. Sterility of the Capables.

STERILITY OF THE CAPABLES.

Are the More Capable Relatively Sterile?--If so, we are Breeding from our Incapables--Capable and Ambitious Men Marry Late in Life--Many Unmarried Persons among Upper Classes--Lower Class Marriages are the Most Prolific--Their Infant Mortality is Greater--Artificial Restriction of the Family--Fertility of French and English Marriages Contrasted--Possible Swamping of the Capables by the Incapables--Artificial Restrictions at Present Most Disastrous 135–153