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Show Qient has been trie. There is no soul,, no human intellect or will to deal with.! The real science seeks to discover not only possibilities hut limitations. Thus i far can eugenics go and no farther, but i enthusiasts assume that it will take the place of all other agencies in producing perfect men and women, that the eu- , geirist is to be ol more value to the World than the educators, lawgivers and ministers of religion combined. This is not said to discredit the true functions of eugenics. But the science is new. It has it limitation they will appear from time to time as the experiments ex-periments and data accumulate. A time j will come when it will be possible to j estimate what can be accomplished and What can not be. That time is far j ahead. Those who are devoted to the i science should pursue their investiga- tions humbly and with open minds, and not in a didactic and ex cathedra spirit. A c en tu ry ago an economist and sociologist, so-ciologist, named Malthus created a sensation sen-sation in the intellectual world hy figuring figur-ing out that the human race was increasing in-creasing in geometrical ratio while production pro-duction was increasing only in arithmetical arith-metical ratio. He informed his dismayed dis-mayed contemporaries that in a century or two the ra.ee would starve to death unless the ratio of human increase was checked. His estimates were false both as to the race and as to production. His theory ig now discredited, but his discoveries dis-coveries have proved of value in establishing es-tablishing theories which more nearly approach to scientific accuracy. Another mistake of the pseudo-science is the assumption that pious people peo-ple who adhere to certain standards of living shall set themselves up as courts to decide who shall have children and who shall not. In some cases the verdict ver-dict would be obvious and unobjectionable. unobjection-able. In others it would be a greater crime than thbse it pretended to prevent. pre-vent. But in any event it would be one part of the community dictating to another an-other whether they had the right to reproduce their kind. As we tried to indicate, this is at the best a most perilous position to assume, recollecting the scriptural injunction "judge not that ye be not judged.' Undoubtedly the community as a whole does pass judgment now upon other parts of the community. We send criminals to prison according to very definite criminal laws. A few innocent suffer, but on the whole the criminals receive their dues and society is given necessary protection. But in our humble hum-ble opinion the day is far distant when even the majority of the body politic will be justified in passing judgment upon their fellow men in accordance with more or less vague eugeuic theories. theo-ries. K TO A CRITIC. Tn auother column we present a criticism criti-cism of a recent Tribune editorial which appeared under the caption "Eugenic Ambitions." The writer has misconstrued miscon-strued thp editorial to some extent and, moreover, has not demonstrated with flawless logic the point? he seeks to prove. Tirt of all, our correspondent is wrong in saying "you call the subject a pseudo-science. ' ' I f he will re-read the editorial he will. discover that we distinguished dis-tinguished with care between that which we described as a " pseudo science " and that which we recognized as a genuine science. The data furnished by our correspondent corres-pondent dis loses some of the defects of the pseudo-science which is more and more masquerading as the genuine sci once of eugenics. A comparison is instituted in-stituted between the progeny of a woman of the underworld and the . progeny of a man of high intellectual and moral character. It is assumed thai heredity was the sole element of d is Unction between these two families, anc nothing is said of environment, of rc ii)(tvU ' ' i u 1 a 1 1 o n . ri'ijiien Burrounaina8 intellect ua I i-ompanionship. etc. Our objection to tho pseudo science, not to the bona tide science, ib that it exaggerates the importance of heredity bml hi cists that animal breeding along scientific lines will take the place of religion, education, environment and the human will. No parallel worth mu-h jao be drawn between the results obtained ob-tained in the plaul and animal world and the results sought in the human Sphere. In the breeding ot animals no one tries to produce lawyers, professors or editor, however much appearances sometimes may indicate that the experi- |