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Show TWO EXAMPLES. Man is the only human who breeds carelessly and without consideration. The science of heredity is studied by those who produce rare horses, fine cattle, chickens, dogs, pigeons, and every other kind of animal, while society so-ciety goes along its way without any regulations to protect the human strain. In a recent article Dr. Arthur Dean gives two contrasting records, showing that blood counts in human breeding as well as in animals: "Martin Kallikak didn't believe blood would tell. His own ancestry was excellent. On one wild night he forgot himself and his family. He met a pretty but feeble-minded girl. The result was a feeble-minded boy. This was about 150 years ago. "Among the 480 descendants of Martin Kallikak there have been 143 ; known feeble-minded and probably more not known; 36 illegitimates; 33; sexually immoral; 24 confirmed alcoholics, alco-holics, three epileptics, three criminals, crimin-als, eight keepers of brothels, and 83 children so feeble-minded they died in infancy. "Richard Edwards married Elizabeth Eliza-beth Tuthill. Compare the descendants descend-ants with those of Martin Kallikak. There have descended 12 college presidents, pres-idents, 265 college graduates, 65 college col-lege professors, 60 physicians, 100 clergymen, 75 army graduates, 60 prominent authors, 100 lawyers, 30 judges, 80 public officers prominent state governors three congressmen, two United States senators and one vice-president of the United States. "In both instances blood talked and big. The tale as told of Martin Kallikak was a bloody and sinister one. The Edwards story is a masterpiece master-piece of a blood tale." Every modern state should enact laws providing for the sterilization of mental defectives, those who are weak-minded, and habitual criminals. Physical tests should be exacted before be-fore marriage in order that inheritable inherit-able diseases may not be perpetuated, i The proportion of abormal people is increasing in this modern world and it should be lowered. The aim of society so-ciety should be the creation of a race as nearly perfect as humanly possible to attain. |