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While Edmund T. Byles admires Theodore Roosevelt and agrees with his disapproval of “willful sterility,” he feels the article “Race Decadence” is not in line with the “charitable traditions” of The Outlook. He knows many families, including his own, who have few or no children due to infertility who are hurt by the article’s “degrading imputation[s].”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-18
Robert T. Moris praises Theodore Roosevelt’s article “Race Decadence,” published in The Outlook. He believes “Jews are to become the dominant people” and sends a book explaining why.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-11
Drawing on examples of fish and bird reproduction, George B. Grant proposes that surrogate motherhood in humans is possible. If developed, the practice would ease “the educated and wealthy[‘s]” fears about death in childbirth, thus preventing race suicide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-30