| Show p = J IABRIAtfa3ii1 x COB8IM 8cieBtI1i8O1K1811 n 6tk81tu et t1ti QnestiftiIU = r u I This 4 inoulry aa 7the effceta of sntb f marriages ontheir offspring comes from a friend in Oregon j 11111 not the common belief that aarrr ages Between iI1 looriainaiie objectionable objection-able somewhat likSihebeliefin the affect af-fect t f the moon upon planting crops shrinking of meal3eteL merely eoinei dencesi snd noQeiiusedbjt moon Jam J-am aware of courser that family traits must be more pronounced in the children child-ren but whereboth aides are mentally and physically Bound I cant lea why such marriage should hare the tendency ten-dency to pzoauee + nnaoumd children Tkoiiiha th pifi5mdi B > Is8st such marriages has aeotmdir basis than mere snpersUtl0i171heit1fYi1 dts upon offspring off-spring seem to have been exaggerated except IinOiaslancW here theieie a family predisposition to serious disease In 1871 when the English census was to beak Sir Jjbhn lLubb6ck Dr Play fair ahds other scientific men rmade an effort to have statistics obtained as to the prevalence lId t sqj ences of con sin marriages but unfortunately they were defeated Tby anparliament which was silly enoughto treat their proposition proposi-tion with scornful laughter Afterward Mr George H Darwin son dfflie great Darwin n and himself a man of much scientific reputation undertook an in Testigayonott + his own account though in tai comparatively i narrow field and reached the conclusion that on the average = aver-age such marriages did ° not produce the evireffectscommohly1 attributed to I T them t > t i 6 fax ec in Li I r But Signer Paolo ntegaZa a professor pro-fessor at Pavia made somewhat similar simi-lar inquiry m 1 8and hi jlednctions WerdtharlDAconspdgipeous marriages i are on the whole more unfavorable to thtfdnYiJfin tKatt oth isHJt and that tQe > nearer the fj aninthe greater thL danger and the more so when thek nT ship da through ihe Jmdtheiv < because moreeviTbf gSddlTs Herltable from thQ matherLMr JXarmn himself acknowledges ac-knowledges that preponderance SCI bpldion amok lthe b any + authorities examined by him1 iVtKat the1 in effect of cousin marriages are greater than his partial investigation showed them to be Dr Crichton Brown of the West Riding Rid-ing = asylum for lunatics arid idiots expresses ex-presses the opinion that evenhealthy temperaments when commpn to both parents often come out ° asi decided cachexies in the children and he 1 goes so ferns to contend that no persons oi similar temperaments ought to marry Dr Lander Lindsay of a Scotch aSylUm thinks on the other hand that the ill effects of cousin marriages ludinK insanity in-sanity are much less than represented Dr Arthur Mitchell who as deputy commissioner in lunacy for Scotland made a very thorough investigation ot blood relationship in marriage comes to the conclusion that consanguinity in parentage tends to injure the offspring off-spring New York Sun |
