| Article Title |
Will Race Suicide Wipe out Genius? |
| Type |
article |
| Date |
1912-09-29 |
| Paper |
Salt Lake Herald-Republican |
| Language |
eng |
| City |
Salt Lake City |
| County |
Salt Lake |
| Page |
32 |
| OCR Text |
at WILL RA RACE CE SUICIDE SUI CID E 4 I f. f r w WIPE OUT V r GENIUS rt Brains Are On Often n Those IT of Younger Sons Scientists Now Say and Small Families Fam- Fam 2 flies Hies Might Eliminate Them Themi i i. i Continued from front page Magazine t. t section children who have every right to be born into the world orld the races race's sole op op- to for genius will be limited to the h he very few tew who are accorded the Chance hance to exist And where as In America and Trance France couples limit their family tout to 2 but ut on one child that whole group faces V the ho more than decimating adversities ot fOt infancy and childhood thus reducIng reducing Ing the few tew to a still more negligible neg number Th The number of ot brilliant intellects Y Which Y have influenced human destiny for lor or weal or woe oe has s been BO so many that Westminster Abbeys Abbey's honored dead scarcely be called representative toOl tor or should be taken as typical for tor tho the taW of mathematics and physiology ot propounded proPound d by Professor Hoffman m must lt apply to all nations all races Bonaparte An Example Probably the tho genius which for tor a hundred years ears has most Impressively held the attention of mankind acclaimed acclaimed acclaimed ac ac- ac- ac claimed as equally powerful and dangerous dan dan- yet ct unmistakably of the highest highest high high- est order of ot constructive ability with the greatest volume of ot originality was the Intellect of ot Napoleon Bona Bona- parte So overwhelming were his mind his character and tho the stupendous extent ox- ox tent of his achievements that with his death and even during his life ute the knowledge that he was not the oldest son and first born of the tho Florentine- Florentine Sicilian family whose name he bore was far Car from common People accepted accept d Bonaparte simply as the tho beginning of ot his line and however his brothers might ht figure In the tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre scenes his ability created the popular imagination accepted him without without without with with- out thought of ot them save as his subordinates sub sub- ordinates History was repeating In Ina Ina ina a stranger land In a a. century thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot years cars later the story of Joseph and his brethren as their fortunes fortunes for for- tunes waxed In ancient Egypt There was no special inheritance Napoleon Napoleon Na Na- could lay claim none claim none of ancestral ancestral ances ances- grandeur so far tar as history records b by which he could have reaped all aU the divine fires tires of ot Inspiration which had overleaped the generations His lie father Carlo Maria Marla de Bonaparte Bonaparte Bona- Bona parte of ot Tuscan stock that had set set- tied In Corsica In 1629 1529 married LeUla Letizia tho descendant of ot a worthy well born Florentine family One child child after another came to this thia couple who wore were blessed with more pride of ot birth than ability to rear their children in the luxury the they desired quite as keenly keenly keen keen- ly as the American couple of oC toda today Napoleon was certainly not favored by fortune In his early days not even by tho sentiment of or being the first of ot his generation Ho He was a younger son And how different would be the map of Europe today If It race suicide had been the fashion then and ond Napoleon had never been born oD Not Firstborn Yet there Is another who In the history his his- tory of ot tho the human race has played an oven n larger part than Napoleon thou though h he has never been credited with the tho others other's brilliancy George o Washington is his name and he made possible the success of the revolution that has given given en freedom In the form of ot constitutional constitutional government gO to almost every nation na na- na tion in the tho world Napoleons Napoleon's conquests con con- quests died with him but the work that Washington Washing began Is even evon yet to see aeo Its full fruition But Washington like Napoleon was not the firstborn Suppose that the fashion for tor small I I families oven narrowing down tho the I births to ore one child had been In vogue a a. couple of ot centuries ago aJo Where would we bo be Whether It Is In art literature music or what not the tho array of younger sons Is so BO Impressive that one cannot help avoiding tho the conclusion that had tho the birth rates been restricted In the tha early days tho human race raco would be far behind be be- hind Its present presen t a attainments ts What would modern music bo be without with out Beethoven who could only be compared com corn par pared d to George Washington for tor hie his Influence In tho the realm of or music Without With With- out Beethoven's foundation of the modera modern mod mod- era ern orchestra would Wagner Vagner over have achieved his Napoleonic triumphs in harmony And Beethoven was not of ot the tho firstborn There were Chopin and Schubert too who wore younger sons sons and and music owes much to them thorn In art there Is a distinguished array of masters who were not of tho first born The mighty Rembrandt with his effects In lighting that are arc puzzles even to tho the present day with hi his etchIngs etchIngs etch- etch InKs s that almost made an art ort In themselves themselves them them- selves with hi his searching delineation of character this character this same Rembrandt was not the first son of his peasant mother Other Van Dyke for tor whom as much could be said as for Rembrandt was not his mothers mother's first child Literature too has many names which are not those of first sons Hugo and Rousseau among tho the might iest icet of French writers might fever nover have been had raco race suicide been fash fash- In their day day- And greater c perhaps than either is our own English author Charles Dick Dick- ens Little Nell David field Copper Cuttle Oliver Twist Fagin a aa and anda a a. host of ot other characters more fa familiar millar almost than household names would be unknown If the mot of Charles Dickens had been beon as advanced d as 1111 some of ot her sex se- of ot today ToIsto 1 t and Tennyson are others othere of whom the same could bo be said Bald Coming back to the statesmen and conquerors there are aro Lincoln and Cromwell who wore Were not the eldest of ot their families English history would havo to be rewritten If Cromwell could be bo shoved out of ot his niche b by IntroducIng ing lag the past to race suicide le while millions mil mil- lions of ot liberated negroes may well re rejoice re- re joice that restricted families were un unknown unknown unknown un- un known In the tho rudo rude surroundings which witnessed the birth of Lincoln 0 I |
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