The Washington herald., 1912-09-21

viewpoint of the lower animal These
NAL any more at to meet life. to with
stand hardships contingent on a nor-
NAL lower-animal existence"
Attempts to breed geniuses, DR..
Hutchinson said, has proven a dismal
failure. and has resulted In the starv-
ing out of from five to seven geniuses
for every one bred in a given commu-
nifty. The largest part of the things
which have made men unfit to breed
superman are hereditary, he said. and
no one hut George Bernard Shaw has
presumed to have knowledge of how to
breed race of superman.
Rlame on Heredify.
Investigation has shown that from 2
to per cent OF the people In every COM
tnunity are congenitally>u unit to repro
duce. and from these are sprung all our
feeble-minded. most OF our insane. most
OF our epiieptics. many of our criminals
and paupers. and most OF our prosti-
tutes," he said.
'Tf we can manage &c break into this
stream in one way or another we can
stop this defect in human breads. We
should have careful examination of chill
dren In public and private schools to
discover these defects. and those children
In which such defects are discovered
should be removed to a different environ
ment, q comfortable, happy school in the
country, where they would be treated
with the greatest possible care, but
where they would be prevented from re-
producing their kinds by permanent
segregation.
These traits are not increasing under
civilization. We simply are perpetuating
in each new generation the defects OF
the preceding generation"
supply Reservoirs.
DIR. Hutchinson said that this class of
nl-born is drawn chiefly from two great
reservoirs. namely. small. segregated
rural communities, and from wealthy
families, where drones and eccentric
detectives are protected by their wealth
and position from, so to speak, the fool
killer
q In this class said DIR. Hutchinson,
eccentricities, which in others would be
defects. are protected and perpetuated
and considered in the nature of a special
badge of distinction.
DIR. Hutchinson touched on the alcohol
traffic and dissented from the belief that
It is growing and pulling down the race.
After calling TO mind the hard-drinking
days of the fathers. DR.. Hutchinson did
not believe the lily-hngered drinking
which is going on at the present day
should frighten the human race. More
over, and here DR.. Hutchinson stirred
up more criticism. he believed a great
part of the alcoholism is hereditary. In
replying 10 criticisms for this belief, DR..
Hutchinson had to call TO mind the
words OF a noted French student, who
remarked: There is no doubt but that
alcohol is great stimulant. and IT ex-
cites those who do not take IL hardly
less than those who do"
Race Average High.
About 81 per cent OF the entire human
race is born normal and sound" he con-
cluded. The general average OF the
race is high and good The chief aim
of eugencIes is the recognition of this
fact We must alter our attitude in re-
gard to the great mass OF the people.
We have actually taken. In our inspired
unin Sclligence. this . or per cent as
creatures which we all would become IL
not held down by the strong arm OF the
law, and We have allowed the attitude
to color our thoughts until We have
built up a code OF moral and criminal
law which for savagery, stupidity, and
would be hard TO match
short Of another planet. The thing most
needed in eugencies is to preserve and
nerpetuats- the normal virtues OF the u
per cent OF the race, TO adopt beneH-
olence of spirit, and mental attitude
such as was assumed by the great Lin
coin when he said, God must have loved
the plain people. he made so many ot
US"
DR. 6 Adolphus Knopf, OF New York.
was the first TO take issue with DR..
Hutchinson in the discussion which
followed, particularly with the view
that prostitution and alcoholism are