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of my assertion, that the first right of the
child is to select its own parents.
What here must be first considered is the
thought constantly being brought out by
Darwinian writers, that the natural sciences,
in which must now be numbered psychology,
should be the basis of juristic science as well
as of pedagogy. Man must come to learn
the laws of natural selection and act in the
spirit of these laws. Man must arrange the
punishments of society in the service of
development; they must be protective measures
for natural selection. In the first place this
must be secured by hindering the criminal
type from perpetuating itself. The characteristics
of this type can only be determined
by specialists. But the criminal must be
prevented from handing on his characteristics to
his posterity.
So the human race will be gradually freed
from atavisms which reproduce lower and
preceding stages of development. This is the
first condition of that evolution by which
mankind will be able to let the ape and tiger die.
Then comes the requirement that those with
inherited physical or psychical diseases shall
not transmit them to an offspring.
As to this type of heredity opinions are
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