Viscount Haldane, considered by some as a greater scientist, and a more brilliant critic, indicates that eugenics may come in by a pleasanter though more startling route. By 1950, he anticipates the production of the first ectogenetic child, or child born from a womb withdrawn from the mother’s body for all of the embryonic period. By a simple operation, he prophesies that science will be able to remove an ovary from a woman, and keep it growing in a suitable fluid for as long as twenty years, producing a fresh ovum each month, of which 90 percent can be fertilized, the embryos grown successfully, for nine months, and then brought out into the air. Many nations will hail this movement because of the falling birthrate that they are at present suffering from. He believes that such an absolute separation of reproduction from love will make a deep and profound effect upon morality. It will be possible then for each generation to choose only the perfect parents to produce the coming generation. There is much to be said in favor of this amazing idea, and of course, a great deal to be said against it. But the ever-increasing growth of intelligence will ultimately wipe out the majority of the objections. The foremost thinkers of today regard eugenics as a matter worthy of their discussion and serious consideration. We offer what science may suggest as possible solutions of the race problem. How the state and country may regard these discoveries is another and quite unpredictable matter. It is very probable that things will not advance as briskly as these two quoted scientists anticipate. Nor need we be too much concerned with the fate of 1950. It remains for each individual to give his and her consent to adequate eugenic protection. Greater happiness will result from a certainty that the parties to any marriage are fit for parenthood. _Birth Control._—The chief reason why many people are against eugenics is that it demands birth control. Many religions denounce this practice, and in general the state is against it. No doctor is allowed to give advice on this subject. The very persons who shudder and brand any passion as animal, regard promiscuous breeding as human. There is nothing more animal-like than being merely a vehicle for breeding purposes. Yet that, according to the laws of state and religion, is all that marriage is for. This theory is expected to apply to the poor; it does not concern the rich. Artificial methods of preventing conception are widely known among those who could well afford to have children. In many localities it is a crime to furnish this information. A doctor, though he knows that the parents are unfit for parenthood, may not do anything to prevent the birth of a child. The poor, therefore, who have the greatest need for the information, cannot acquire it, in general.