Eugenics and the Improvement of Humanity
By Editor
Several of the states have under consideration laws on the subject of Eugenics. It appears as if they will, in some instances, be passed. The demand for such laws is a confession that the race is deteriorating, and that mankind is becoming so filled with disease that it is no longer safe to issue marriage licenses to people who can not present a clear bill of health from competent physicians. The California League of Justice has another plan to propose. It desires to get authority, by state enactment, to “mate in marriage twenty-five selected couples on a state farm, where they and their offspring can be reared under idyllic conditions and the eyes of experts.” It is interesting to observe all the plans that men advance for the improvement of the race. It is interesting also to note that the Lord, in His patience and kindness, permits mankind to try out all its futile plans, while at the same time He tells them that there is just one effectual way of really improving men and women, and that is by the means of the regeneration that comes through the salvation provided in Jesus Christ.