ers ought to have undergone abortions instead of giving live births in those cases; but the trouble with all reproduction is that you can't see what you're buying, and with abortion you can't see what you're not buying. I can't see any bright future for abortion, nor any end to it. Now then, if only somebody could cipher out a way of making abortions retroactive...
Contraception and asception have their logic, but they are the recourse of the intelligent, the educated, the informed and the wealthy-of people who possess bath rooms. Contraception is no remedy for the poor, the young, the ignorant, the gullible, the stupid nor the drunken. Consequently, with the widespread reliance upon contraception, we are breeding exuberantly from out populace's worst stocks.
War has been called a pruning-hook of population. It may or may not be that; but certainly it is a plague. The man who advocates war is a fool and a scoundrel. As a means of limiting proliferation, war seems ineffectual. Surely Germany put as much energy into the destructinon of the Jewish population as you can reasonably ask anybody to; but I hear that there were more Jews living in 1946 than lived in 1936.
Murder and mayhem are not very good as brakes on runaway breeding, but they are resorted to as such. People are getting killed now who were never killed before. Women will kill their husbands, and husbands will kil their wives. A life-long bachelor may be forgiven if he thinks marriage is murder. Still, the statistics do indicate that marriage sometimes leads to murder. The relation here between the cause and the effect frequently escapes the unpainstaking observer.
Among the ancient Greeks, of from 750 to 500 b.c., colonization was resorted to as a means of relieving the pressure of people. A city that had more denizens than it could support
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would organize the emigration of the surplus to a distant place where land worked well: people moved into the colonies, stayed there and developed new communities.
Modern colonization, though, say from about 1600 a.d. onward, was of a different kind. A forehanded man in Europe would sojourn in one of his country's colonies only briefly while he made a fortune: then he would return to make his home in Europe. Alternatively a group of investors in Europe would farm a foreign colony as the investors' private propertywhile they could. So modern colonization did nothing to relieve excessive population.
Space there is, whether or not it may properly be called living room, today, in the colder and hotter parts of the world, such as Brazil, Canada and Alaska; but we see nobody trying. hard to plant colonies there. As a soldier and sailor, I've traveled in foreign parts, including Canada, Alaska and the tropics; and I can tell you something on this point. An American who has brains enough, energy enough or capital enough to make a go of it in any of those places will undoubtedly find it easier to make a go of it right here in the 48 contiguous states. I see no prospect of population's flowing into the sparsely settled but undesirable areas of land. On the contrary, it seems as if everybody is coming to Los Angeles.
It is not hard to argue, in the light of these obvious facts, that homosexuality is a good, a positive good. It is the non-procreative man or the man prudently procreative who is the responsible man, the man of righteousness. In our compacted world we have a right to ask of any father, "What justification have you for gratifying your sexual desires thus to probable detriment of your neighbors?" He may have a good answer, but the question is bound to be raised.