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Show Can Scientific Breeding Produce Men of Genius? Hnninn geniuses must be bred as race horses by combining "carefully selected pedigreed stock," the president presi-dent of the Eugenics Research assoil-atlon assoil-atlon said at a meeting of the orgonl-zafhm orgonl-zafhm In New Tork. Whether that is true of the future or not no one knn-s. It has not been true In the past. Physical development may be so in fluenred, and morons may be the d scemlants of morons. But genins and leadership appears In so many unex-nected unex-nected nlaces and persons that we ate n.it know why one man becomes a great leader or a wonderful engineer It may be heredity, or environment, or education, or what? Thnt man must continue to advance through evo lutlon and better breeding Is undoubt ediy true, but thnt we con create a genius by plannlug Is yet tc e proven No oge has seen so many geniuses as the present, and eugenics had nothing whatever to do with the manufacture of this wealth oi brains. Miami Her aid. unable to draw any diagram or ar range a plan whereby we can plot their creation. One genius may come out of a family which produces other of no account. Tet the brilliant Its tellect and the lazy nit wit possessed the same parents. . Eugenlsts may prove that certain families over several generations have produced only menial defectives, while other families have given society a high grude of superior Intelligence Hut there are often exceptions to uphold up-hold or break the rule. But genius Is hard to trace. We do |