This right does not mean that it is the duty of the State to make search for inoffensive degenerates to satisfy the law of talion. In the interest of personal liberty, it would be very dangerous to give society the right to pick up inoffensive men and women on the streets, declare them imbeciles and sterilize or castrate them. This would throw the doors wide open to abuse. Only those who place themselves or are placed under society’s protection, either in asylums or in prisons, and have thus become society’s wards should be subjected to the rules and regulations of society. [CL] The brutality of Nietzsche’s philosophy has never attracted normal people, even if they had the assurance that the offspring of the brutal mating will turn out to be supermen. This assurance can not be given. The lessons of history teach just the contrary. The artificial breeding of the Spartan warrior led to the sterility of every progress of culture, science, art or commerce, while the chaotic panmixia of Athens did not prevent this town of only thirty thousand inhabitants, two-thirds of them slaves, to become the spiritual centre of Greece and the teacher of untold future generations in art and science. But for Athens and its panmixia, Sparta’s history would have remained unwritten and its people buried in oblivion, like many another nation that is known by name only. The most vaunted Spartan vigor has not left the least sign of a monument, chiseled, written, carved, or stained, to record Sparta’s very existence. Sparta’s vigor was the vigor of the bull or the elephant. [CM] Even at the time of Shakespeare this fact was well known. The poet’s advice is: “Let still the woman take an elder than herself; so wears to him, so sways she level in her husband’s heart.” [CN] Premature union means loss for the child, says Ellen Key; it may arrest in their growth countless excellent forces. Woman’s nature does not attain its full spiritual maturity before about the age of thirty. [CO] During pregnancy the prone position is the one least injurious to the child. In the later months, it is sometimes the only position possible. [CP] Brehem reports that in the Sudan the woman stands in initu, bends over and places her hands on her knees. Among the Kamtschadals maritus maritaque jacent in lateribus. Some of the Australian tribes exercent compressionem in a squatting position. [CQ] The question of frequency was a matter of solicitude to many ancient legislators. Zoroaster requires as the minimum frequency to secure a sufficient gratification mulieri una congressio nono quoque die; Solon three times a month; Mohammed requires once a week, otherwise the woman shall have cause for divorce. [CR] Among young married people it is often the wife who is more exacting than the husband. The sensations are entirely new to her and she demands their repetition so often till the male erections fail to perform their part.