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lages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settle-
ments in all marshy and unwholesome situations. But above all,
we should reprobate [strongly condemn] specific remedies for

ravaging diseases; and those benevolent, but much mistaken
men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by
projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disor-
ders. 8
Malthus also encouraged the death of babies:
... we are bound in justice and honour formally to disclaim the
right of the poor to support. To this end, I should propose a regu-
lation to be made, declaring, that no child born... should ever be
entitled to parish assistance... The [illegitimate] infant is, compar-
atively speaking, of little value to the society, as others will imme-

diately supply its place... All the children born, beyond what
would be required to keep up the population to this [desired]
level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them
by the deaths of grown persons. 9
Malthus possessed a sufficiently twisted logical framework
as to justify letting newborns die for the future of society. You
might well assume that such perverted views are a thing of the
past and could no longer be accepted by anyone today. Yet that

is not the case. In modern-day China, population planning is
carried out by means of the killing of newborn babies—making
it easy to see the permanent effects on societies of the destructive
views of Malthus and his follower Darwin. The communist
Chinese state seeks to prevent its own people from living by re-
ligious moral values, and looks at them through a Darwinist
eye. For that reason, in addition to the enormous social and
moral collapse, human beings are forced to work in labor camps
devoid of the most basic humane conditions. Children of par-
ents with already more children than the number permitted by

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