Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1465

1465. The state governments and administrations thus largely consider it to be far more important to build over-sized, luxurious town halls or palaces of administration than to guarantee and secure absolutely and completely the continued existence of the species. This is evident from the fact that they have not as yet to an overwhelming extent realised their responsibility in this area and do not therefore have a sufficient sense of duty regarding this. If a labourer and his wife have eight, ten or twelve children, the government does not feel alive or alert to this. The existence of these twelve small new individuals is abandoned entirely to the often quite hopeless financial prospects or opportunities of the two unfortunate parents. Of course, the state intervenes and allows that a certain amount be deducted from the tax the father has to pay, just as it in certain cases grants so-called "social benefit", which in reality is merely a finer term for "poor relief". But does securing the continued existence of its species only in this almost miserly way not discredit the state or society? That the state in this way, albeit indirectly, neglects the birth or incarnation of every such child into the world is an absolutely heathen tradition, indeed, is simply a reflection of the animal state in which the beings had a tendency to eat their own offspring. What mission in the service of the state is greater than that of two parents who have brought a certain number of children into the world and have thereby, through their own flesh and blood, given the state or mankind new, healthy individuals? Have they not fulfilled one of the conditions without which neither mankind nor the state could survive? Is it not such parents that it has to thank for its continued existence or life? But why then does it plunge two such people into the proletariat, into destitution and poverty by not wanting to sufficiently acknowledge its kinship with the offspring of these two people, granting them merely a kind of degrading "charitable aid" in the form of the above-mentioned "poor relief"? Indeed, is it not quite simple? In doing so does it not prove its spiritual ineptitude or mental infancy. The state is thus in reality a very "young individual". It still allows its existence and survival to be furthered by its blood relations in precisely the same way as a baby allows its existence to be furthered by its parents. But just as a baby grows up and reaches the age of discretion, so too will the state grow out of its child stage and understand that it has come of age and is strong enough to keep its own survival and existence under control. It will then no longer blindly allow the reproduction and continuation of its species to be undertaken free of charge by parents who have to work themselves to death in slavery and be held down in the proletariat, merely because they fulfil Nature's sexual conditions for the survival of the species.