The State can arrest the gradual degradation of its people, by sterilizing all defective women and the wives of defective men falling into the hands of the law.

Mr.Henry M.
Boies in "Prisoners and Paupers" suggests life-long isolation.

He says:--"It is time however that society should interpose in this propagation of criminals.

It is irrational and absurd to occupy our attention and exhaust our liberality with the care of his constantly growing class, without any attempt to restrict its reproduction.

This is possible too, without violating any humanitarian instinct, by imprisonment for life; and this seems to be the most practicable solution of the problem in America.