Show UNFIT FOR MARRIAGE the que question stion whether laws should not be enacted for fqy the restriction of marriages biages to those ali fit for the prorogation of tho the human race is 19 by dr harry the doctor according to a review 1 his article in the medical record the matter from a scientific and rn me cal point of view he shows that ten large extent the process of natural e lection is interfered with among clau iced nations by the restrictions gov jl 1 ing the marriage laws and by the sav 2 ing of lives which under primitive con editions dit ions would be lost he thinks that i viewed from the standpoint of ahl cal hygiene the abolition of the old oid patriarch ial order of marriage was a v mistake but that since its re estate lish ment is impossible the only cour cobrae to pursue now is to attempt to arevea 1 the effects resulting from ill juda judged marriages JAs unfit tor for matrimonial relations the doctor marks all who are suffer ln from pulmonary consumption titon heart disease epilepsy insanity chrol S brights disease and functional dia va orders of the nervous system the aft eluding of the last mentioned ailment in the list calls for the following re ss marks by the record there can be no doubt that if tha neurotics never married in the courtw course 1 of ime diseases of the nervous would greatly lessen and probably du t out and it may also be true that 0 aej A world peopled with phlegmatic i skinned mediocrities would be happle in a sense but the question here be asked do we want to ba without our neurotics or can we along without them if history ransacked it will be found that m of the great deeds of the world haa been performed by individuals of h hia et ly IY sensitive nervous temper the contention too that the skinned mediocrities are the happi persons is to doubt if a n or less animal life is the end to gained then they may be but at same time the fact should be borne mind that while they never d deace into the depths of misery like the ing with the ill strung nervous sy dyste yet on the other hand they are ts capable of experiencing many of tha delightful emotions and of asce ascending into the heavens of joy as are tasi neurotics in this country the su tion of dr campbell that any pe afflicted with neurotic taint sh should 0 id P precluded from marrying will icar sc escarc arc meet with favor in as that case p pro ably half the population would r w single from this little bit of highly int inow esting discussion it appears tand s speaking from a hygienic stand potoS some day we may find out that half of the civilized race pei perhaps haps lem ie a is really worthy of becoming f father a th and mothers what is the watta matter with civilization has it entirely fo tot l gotten its mission |