F. Roger Devlin, American Renaissance, June 2008
There is nothing newunder the sun. The radicals of the 1960s who championed sexualliberation and called marriage a “system of oppression” imagined theywere doing something revolutionary—and in a sense they were, butfeminism and the sexual revolution have led to the reemergence withinthe white world of a more primitive family system long observed inAfrica.
About the middle of the “roaring twenties,” the eminent literary critic Irving Babbitt issued a warning:
“Sexualunrestraint is wreaking fearful havoc to society. The resultantdiseases are a menace to the future of the white race. There is anundoubted connection between a certain type of self-indulgentindividualism and an unduly declining birthrate. The French and alsothe Americans of native descent are, if we are to trust statistics, indanger of withering from the earth. Where the population is increasing,it is, we are told, at the expense of quality. The stocks to which thepast has looked for its leaders are dying out and the inferior or evendegenerate breeds are multiplying.”As for remedies, Babbitt acknowledged that people are not usuallymotivated by “such general grounds as the good of the white racemenaced by ‘the rising tide of color’” (alluding to Lothrop Stoddard’sthen-recent book—see “A Warning from the Past,”AR, Jan. 2000). He proposed that traditional ideals of selfrestraint—continence and monogamy—would be of greater racial benefitthan explicitly eugenic considerations.