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Show Two Examples. Man is the only human who breeds carelessly and without consideration. con-sideration. The science of heredity is studied by tho"-e who produce rare horses, fine cattle, chickens, dogs, pigeons, and every other kind cf animal, while society goes along its way without any regultlions to protect the human strain. In a recent re-cent article Dr. Arthur Dean gives two contrasting records, showing that blood counts In human breeding breed-ing 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. lie met a pretty feeble-minded girl. The result was a feeble-minded boy. This was 150 years ago. "Among the 480 descendants of Martin Kallikak there have been 143 known feeble-minded and probably pro-bably more not known; 36 Illegitimates; Illegiti-mates; 33 sexually Immoral; 24 confirmed alcoholics, three epileptics, epilep-tics, three criminals, eight keepers of brothels and 83 children so feeble that 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, 265 college graduates, 65 college professors, 60 physicians, 100 clergymen, 75 army graduates, 60 prominent authors. 100 lawyer.;, 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. crimin-als. Physical tests should be exacted befr.re marriage in order that inheritable in-heritable disea,es may not be perpetuated. per-petuated. The proportion of abnormal abnor-mal people Is Increasing In this modern world and it should be lowered. low-ered. The aim of society should be the creation of a race as nearly perfect as humanly possible to attain. |