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was irresponsible of Manjoo to do. Putting pro-birth control feminists of the time into the same extremism category as avid eugenics proponents like Teddy Roosevelt and Oliver Wendall Holmes is the sort of mistake the right is hoping extremism people make. Holmes, for instance, is personally responsible for having women sterilized against their will. Roosevelt got downright Stanley Kurtz-esque in his admonishments about how white women need to reproduce more. The intelligence of the remark is on a par with its morality; for the most rudimentary mental process would have shown the speaker that if the average family in which there are children contained but two children the nation as a whole would decrease in population so rapidly that in two or three generations it would very deservedly be on the point of extinction, so that the people who had acted on this base and selfish doctrine would be giving place to others with braver and more robust ideals. Nor would such a result be in any way regrettable; for a race that practised such doctrine—that is, a race that practised race suicide—would thereby conclusively show that it was unfit to exist, and that it had better give place to people who had not forgotten the primary laws of their being.
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