......“It is within my knowledge that certain flats in Mayfair
and elsewhere for the married servant and artisan class are let
on the express or implied condition that not only no children
shall be brought into the tenements, but that none shall be
born there. The direct consequence of this embargo on natural
increase is terribly disastrous. Many footmen and coachmen in
Mayfair could tell a tragical story of the results of
compulsory sterility.
“A Japanese friend was telling me the other day that after an
absence from England of a dozen years he is startled at the
visible deterioration of the race and the great increase of
penniless British weaklings, who add strength to no nation.
‘You English are losing both patriotism and religion, and
consequently you are not only decadent but doomed, unless you
mend your ways in the treatment of women and children.’”