The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-25
DR.. BOILING ON HEREDlN
AND ENVIRONMENT.

The following, about heredity and en-.
virOnment is part Of q recent article
written by DR.. w. T. Boiling OF
Memphis and published in the Com.
mercial Appeal. A PEI Isal OF 1t car
but cause SeriOns contemplation:
The final settlement OF all racial
questions must be settled upon the
basis Of blood, and not by environ
mentS, for races under the same en-
virOnment do not change in their nat
ural relations toward another.
Whether the white man goes into
Africa or the black man comes tt
America, the inherited racial distinc'
tions remain, and no change OF
environment can make thesAnglO-Sax'
on descend to the African or MOngo'
liam, or lift these to the high plane OF
eqality with the Anglo-SaxOn, for un'
der the law that like begets like,
the inherent and hereditary racial
qualities will remain under any en-.
vironment. Through moral cultiva.
tion men may be lifted, but we should
not forget that under the best system
of his inherited capacity, and no en-
vironment will ever completely change
either individutl or racial conditions.
The fact is thai not only physical,
but mental and moral qualities are
transmitted through natural and un-
deviating law, and III folly lies in a
failure, and sometimes in a refusal, to
| recognize this fact. Only people who
are sound in body and mind should
be allowed to marry, for the offspring
Of unSound parents must result in a
| degenerate race. The criminal and
depraved will never produce any other
but naturally criminal and depraved
offSpringS, who must develop into
moral d~egenrateS, ~violatOrS OF law and
d%eStrOyers of order, and no system Of
education or peculiar environment will
change this condition, and the educa-
ton of the better class, inheriting
natural tendencies to betterment, in
to high mental and moral concepts is
the chief hope Of maintaining a moral
equilibrium of moral farceS in govern
ment. The mere mental education
Of a natural moral degenerate will in
evitably only result in making him
simply an expert criminal, while the
mental development Of a naturally
we'll bred child, under the law Of here
dity, will make him a safe and useful
citizen, and some way should be found
to eithsr reduce degenerate product or
else to elimenate such from the right
OF franchise.
The greatest criminals OF today are
the pirates OF commerce, whose ma
turally low-bOrn natures have been in
tensiied through education unto a
commercial robbery rather than ordi-
nary theft, and their offspring will
but remain the morally depraved
beings who would at any time sacrifice
manhood to mammOn. and poison
society with a moral ~ deStruc-
tive to all pure social and civic life.
The turmoil and strife OF war, and
the unsettled conditions following,
gave full scope to low-bOrn and i'm
moral men to flch from the better
and higher bred class until today
their spawn is the controlling class
in a depraved and dishonest CONNER
cial life, bent upon making money by
any process save that of honesty.
While we are looking after the
breed of horses and cattle, would it
not be we'll for us to look at least a
little more to the breed of men, for
on this more than on anything else
depends the future OF our homes and
our country.
Men may sneer at all this, but the
fact remains that while environment
may modify, heredity most largely
determines human character, and
must ultimately determine social and
civic conditions unto an ascending or
descending scale, and the statesman
may we'll look upon the low and
immoral being dumped upon US and
seriously consider what is to be the
OF government at the even
tide Of the present century.
1t is to be hoped that the breed OF
d~ivekeeperS and Of the moral degene-
rates who in their wealth wallOw in
filth OF the social ceSSpOOlS of our great
cities will commit race suicide and run
out, and that the better breed OF
honoCt foil will iprrooco nd win out -