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The author of this book makes a frank, straightforward, and very convincing argument in favor of sterilization. He has been studying the question for a long time and the book is the result of his measured opinion. It is well and interestingly written and his statements are simply worded, so the case as he sets it forth should be easily comprehensible to the average intelligence. One of the features of the book are his answers to the usual objections that are made to sterilization.
Perhaps the most outstanding and significant aspect of his argument is that sterilization should not be made compulsory, that it should, on the contrary, and by all means, be voluntary. As he develops this argument he becomes very convincing. The principal reasons for insisting upon sterilization retaining its voluntary status are in the first place: if it is made compulsory it will have a stigma attached to it. The illustration he gives to demonstrate this attitude of mind is the illustration of finger printing. He states that the average citizen hesitates tremendously to have his finger prints taken and he believes this to be due to the fact that finger printing is associated in his mind with criminals. ‘As the opposite of