El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-11
Success Talks To Men and Boys
Heredity and Marriage

TOHN Calvin, who in spite Of his
theological bigotry. made Geneva
y the fertile seed-pIot Of popular
liberty and republicanism. was infirm
In body and lived in constant i'll
health. Demosthenes. the greatest
orator Of antiquity was Of slight phy-
siQue- Homer, first and greatest OF
the poets, was blind and so was Nil
ton Cicero, ROme's foremost orator.
was a dyspeptic- Green, the histOr-
ian, from the invalids chair/sent forth
books of the brOadest scholarship
Ruskin, the most versatile writer
England hasl yet produced, was al
ways in feeble health. Robert Hall,
one Of England's greatest preachers,
often had to wait and rest while
preaching. Brilliant exceptions which
might be multiplied, only prove the
fiber and OF elastic nerve that does
most in the world. The world still
admires brave LeOuidas and his val
liant band at ThermO pylae, how they
fought the hosts of Astatic empire
that came against them at the com
mand OF AerXes; there was only one
sick man among that matchless 500.
Nerve that Counts.
1t is Joan of Arc, with the stature
or man and the strength or an
Amazon; III is the duke Of wellington,
who stood fOur-square 10 every wind
that blew, with his English sOldiery
sweeping Napoleon to defeat; it is
Gladstone, carrying the burdens OF
English state and the load Of so years
with equal cOmpOsure, ii is Webster.
Clay and Calhoun, laundering their
periods with voices that knew no
Weariness- it Is Grant. who on Mount
MCGregOr, like one of she wounded
gods OF Homer. kept death. at bay for
six months while he snatched his Ne
mOirs,' the CrOWnlng glory OF his
matChless career. from the Jaws OF
death who win
our battles on the field, a0Orn every
position in life audfpass through dis
appointment and defeat, without a
murmur. to the last
Pascal said disease is the natural
state Of Christians" Tt was once an
article of belief that disease was an
act Of Providence and one Of Watts's
hymns has the lines
Diseases are Thy servants, Lord;
They come at Thy command"
In past generation men seemed
to think that rudy cheek was q
sign Of human depravity and a rotund
But we are learning that disease is a [
human production, that it is a sin for
a man to die when he ought to begin I
to live, that degeneracy is not an act
OF Providence, but the result Of mar
riages that should never have been 1
contracted.
OF course there are diseases which I
we do not take, but which we make, +
and bad habits, but all thoughtful men I
are now agreed that there would be I
fewer insane. fewer druukards, fewer Z
degenerates, less disease and longer ]
life if more attention were paid to I
the proper mating of human beings Z
to environment and to better training
A single Family in New York state IN .
IS years has produced 1900 criminals 4
and has cost the taxpayers S1.3OS, 600 .
for arrests and detenuons. A Gin
cinnau tribe of criminals has pro-
iuced $3.50 criminals
One Marriages Results.
Dr. Henry II. Goddard, specialist I'm /
heredity, has pointed out the result I
Of O marriage between a feeble-mind-
ed man and woman that in seven gen
eratiOns OF 1146 brothers, sisters and
cousins, $50 were insane, feeble-mind-
ed, epileptic and criminal
In 80 percent Of insane. statistics
show hereditary predispOsitiOu. either
direct or collateral The white race
Is degeneratnE the vices of our fore
fathers telling in the ruin of the ra-
sial stamina Of men Of the present
lay.
The portion of the insane in New
iork is one to pa of the total popu-
alton. Insanity IS a disease of civil
lzauon. Tt IS rarely seen among
here are six insane to every 1000
while among the less civilized of the
'lavonic races the proportion Is only
'ne-tenth as great Cancer. unknown
.mong the wild races of men, is the
great degenerative malady of civi1f-
alton. One i'm 20 I'm the United states
lies of cancer. Tt has increased 5O9l
n 90 years This alarming condition /
Que TO our lack Of scientific mar