El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-05

EhTHE breeding of good human
stock is the highest work OF
the new humanity" says the
Rev. Mary Andrews, Unitarian preach
er and sociologist
"The time is coming, and coming
fast. when we will exercise as mucn
care evoluting men and women as we
do now in evolving stock
Our children may marry because
they fall in love but our grandchll-
dren will not Our grandchildren VIII
be examined to see whether they are
fit to marry, and if they are not Iitteo
to be parents they will not marry
that's all. So shall the higher race be
evolved"
Great idea. splendid plan---no more
criminals, no more WedkllnSss no
NOR. degenerates, no more drunkards,
no more fools. no more villains; every
body good, everybody clever, everybody
sensible, everybody prosperous, every
body happy, everybody sane, every
body normal"
her followers. Not because 1t is right
to be good, but because you mad the
right kind of a grandfather. BE klnu'
not because you are happier "hen yCu
are kind. not because you wish 10
make others happier too, but because
YOU had a kindly grandmother, and
that's why your grandfather married
her, not for her sake, and ms own DuI
What you are is nothing but what
your grandfather was is the main
thing. Look up his record and see
what you've got to be willy nllly
What The son of village drunk
ard in your OWL town is the president
of the temperance soclety-says MS
fathers example started him on the
right path. Tut, tut, that's Just an &C
cident-dOn't even remember II, II Ism I
scientLic TO DO that
What Aind of woman was your
grandmother? A giddv thing win an
eve for fine feathers and Mt an IDEA
of economy in the world2 Take OH
that sober frOck, throw away your DIAL
" account bOok-you've got to pc Wnat
your grandmother was it's sclentlIlc-
Courage, will principle, the right
kind of home training are nothlIS' not
4 thing IL the WoriI to do with YOU
it's grandma and prandpa that do II
an. That is the rule with horses ana
dogs so. of course. 1t must be the rule
with human beings. too There IS no
difference between the capacity OF d
man to rise above his natural 1ncllna-
lions and a monkeys, any authority on
heredity wiz tell you that or imply IT,
anyhow
come from2 That's a little confusing,
| I'll admit
Caesar, Confucius, Calico, Napoleon,
Mahomet St. Paul, not one OF them
normal" not one Of them IN SOOQ
of folks, and their parentage, on, Inat
went bear Investigating at all rms
new rule won't work backward 4 Dlt-
Just stretch out your hand and PICK
a few names from the great roll OF
/ honor through the centuries PICK
them out at random, from every Gil
mate every race, every field OF en-
( deavOr.
Thomas Carlyle Daniel Webster,
Richard Wagner, Joan Of Arc, Robert
Louis Stevenson, Edwin Booth, Bret
I Harte. Richard Mansfield, Sarah Bern
hardt Robert Burns, lord Byron, Dus
what's the use, not one OF them WouIu
pass muster at a scientific eNamlna-
ton" for a right to live Something
wrong with every one of them, not one
I of them bred right, not single one
| from a scientific point o. view
OH Yes, 1 suppose some little cut
and dried professor in some little CUT
and dried school, is worth more 10 the
world than Napoleon with his record
of bloOdshed, and yet
Leonardo Da Vinci Michael Angelo,
Raphael. Abraham Lincoln, Ohyer
I Cromwell: who were the fathers Of this
brood of giants?
"SeIected7' parents, scientifically
chosen husbands. aitruisticany mated
women Of perfect physique and Won
drous moral fiber2
BE careful, professor, you are solhs
to step off into deep water before you
get much farther from the safe and
sane shore with the books and the
theories and the teachings.
sentiment has no place in marriage,
says doctor Andrews Not the seltlsh
sentiment we call ioCe these days, a
higher, holier ideal win take its place,
and when it does we shall have the
foundation Of perfect race
How encouraging, how uplifting,
how spiritual Wouldn't you love the
kind OF woman who would pick out