Our anti-social perverted sentimentality shows itself particularly in the stand we are taking towards marriage. Marriage and racial anti-suicide are preached in and out of season. Almost anybody, the criminal in the Tombs and the deaf-mute in the asylum, is considered good enough to marry and to propagate. The result of this preaching is that the improvident, incontinent, selfish and foolish follow the advice and marry. The less individualized, the lower the types, the more nearly animal, the earlier they marry and the more they are fertile. On the other hand, the superior men and women either do not marry at all (e. g., Catholic priests, nuns, teachers, nurses, etc.), or marry very late and practise the voluntary elimination of the family in the bargain. For the prevention of conception is an accepted principle among the better classes of every civilized country.[CI] Hence the fall of the birth-rate among the most desirable classes, such as the professional people, best artisans, skilled mechanics, etc. This falling birth-rate in itself is not at all a great calamity to humanity, as some reformers and politicians try to make us believe. It may be dangerous to a smaller State when threatened by a more populated one, or to an aristocracy when threatened to be ousted from its privileged position by the common people. Otherwise the fall of the birth-rate brings rather benefit than damage to the family and to society. The deplorable thing is that only the superior classes practise the limitation of the family; the inferior classes multiply like rabbits. In this way society is overburdened with the listless and the incapable. Our reformatories, prisons, asylums and homes for the defective are overcrowded.