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He [Oliver Wendell Holmes] was fond of a certain slogan, and in June of 1922 he repeated it to British scholar and future Labor Party Chairman Harold J. Laski. "As I have said, no doubt, often, it seems to me that all society rests on the death of men. If you don't kill ‘em one way you kill ‘em another-or prevent their being born." He added, "Is not the present time an illustration of Malthus?"

--Edwin Black, "War Against The Weak: Eugenics And America's Campaign To Create A Master Race", p. 120