ABSTRACT
The Folkish (völkisch) state must . . . set race in the centre of all life. It must take care to keep it pure. It must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. It must see to it that only the healthy beget the children; but there is only one disgrace: despite one’s own sickness and deficiencies, to bring children into the world, and one’s highest honour: to renounce doing so. And conversely, it must be considered reprehensible to withhold healthy children from the nation. Here the state must act as a guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit. It must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge. It must declare unfit for propagation all who are in any way visibly sick or who have inherited a disease and can therefore pass it on, and put this into actual practice. Conversely, it must take care that the fertility of the healthy woman is not limited by the financial irresponsibility of a state regime which turns the blessing of children into a curse for the parents. It must put an end to that lazy, nay criminal, indifference, with which the social premises for a fecund
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