The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-19
Copyright, 1912. by Americana Jour
nal Examiner. Great Britain
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This world will be intensely in
teresting one hundred years to come.
Between the Society for Applied
Eugenics and the Longevity Bureau
and Laboratory. the human race
stands a chance of becoming much
better image of It's Creator than 1t
is today
DR.. Forbes Winsow. the mental
specialist, said to a journalist: This
IL by far the most pressing question
| of our time We have 1873, 81 lunatics
incarcerated in asylums, and no fewer
than 10000 feeble minded degen-
crates at large in the community free
at will TO become parents. The ma
| jority of them are either the children
| of arankards or the offspring or
| feeble minded parents In 1859 there
was a lunatic for every $50 sane per
sons. Today the ratio Is one in ga,
| and in less than 800 years unless
drastic steps are taken. there Will be
more lunatics and degenerates than
sane people among the western ma
| tons"
The indiscriminate breeding OF
lunatics must. therefore, Toe stopped
| by law,
From report of the chief medical
officer Of the board OF education tSir
George Newman, 1t appears that OF
the six. million school children in
England and Wales, not less than
sixty three persons, suffer from some
! sort Of disease.
We can only secure racial improve
ment by breeding from the most
moral. the most intellectual and the
most highly developed physical units.
while preventing the propagation OF
scrubs and degenerates In each ana
every succeeding generation.
Now there liz regular bureau, to
assist those who want 10 look into
the scientific side Of the marriage
question.
Al the eugenics record ONCE. which
Or. Davenport has established at Cold
Spring Harhor. Long Island. 1t is pos
| sihia for any young man or woman to
obtain, free of charge. from the high
est authorities Of heredity i'll this
| country. advice as to the hereditary
consequences of q possible marriage
mating. The applicants for such ad-
Vice are furnished with blanks on
" hich to record the family history
and characteristics OF each family.
anHd frem this information, the
biologists can tell what hereditary
traits may appear in the children.
what possibilities in eye color, hair
color or curliness, stature. what pos
| sible defects. physical or mental;
| what possible strong qualities Of body
| or mind.
Besides this, New York. Connect
cut and Indiana. and some other
States have enacted a law making II
permissable to sterilis~ the chronic
criminal, tho hopelessly iDsant and
1T Ik.I- 49, h
shall not reproduce their kind.
In that ever progressive city~-Chi-
CA go--there liz the Academy Of Sc!en~
tihc Thinking. where they teach
orderly and systematic thought.
II has been demonstrated that q
six monthS course In the system
training or mental gymnastics" will
increase the efficience of normal stu
dents as teachers ninety per cent for
pupils taught py tf.ts method will
acquire the habit of absorbing all
knowledge in a completely related
form, they Will become thinkers and
competent citizens instead ~ the Jazy
ne'er-G do wells that now take w the
majority of the product of our schools.
Those who acquire the thought
| habits and mental technique inn
/ pianted by this system will be order
!
| they will he rational In ali things
| and irrational In none. their mental
! efficiency Will be increased many fold.
with a great economy of time on the
| part Of 10th teachers and pupils, they
| viii become habittlated To net always
| upon the result of their reasoning.
| truths will come to reveal themsely CT
| to them as DEGREES nf related natural
| law instead of mere DEGREES OF the
| ego Opinions and beliefsl; in a word.
| they will become wholesale instead
| of retail thinkers.
The statement relative 10 teaching
sex hygiene to children is one of the
| dsmonstraii tons of orderly and syste-
matte thought put out by the Acad-
| envy of Scientific Thinking organized
| for the purpose of promulgating the
| great discovery both in ana OFT Of
| the schools. II In so formulated AZ
| to accord with the DEGREES Of life and
| nature-cf natural law-~of related
modern knowledge.
The law of thought scientifically
formulated Is "A new force in human
affairs. second in importance TO no
| world movement since the coming of
| Christianity"
Human thinking In still in as
great a state of disorder and jumbo
| as language Nhs DtIbte tfle dipiIdb net,
music before the scale was discovered,
printing before Guttenburg. or mathe-
| matics before pythasoreas formulated
its laws.
The decentralization of all thought
and knowledge into nine classified
tons feauivalents~-eight scale tones.
encompassing all of music and TWEEN
tty-six letter sounds all Of language)
is a more far-reaching improvement
than all the others. for IL will do for
education. heaith, economics, govern
/ ment etc, what the alphabet did
for language. movable type for print
ing and literature. the scales for
music and the rules of arithmetic
for calculation. Being the exact
counterpart Of these In it's particular
field. its mission, like theirs. will be
ito bring order out OF chaos and
1t will do 1t.
Sex hygiene is to be an important
branch Taught In this college.
Such a state of diseased thought as
has been revealed among children by
the death of little Julia Connors. ard
the perverted mind Of one Of her IT.
tie associates. should make every pa
rent In America realize the neces-
sity Of some systematized method of
instruction for the little girls and boys
on this uncompromising topic.
Parents, scientists. teachers and
philosophers the world over, should
unite in forming societies to fs,rmu-
late the best method Of wise and safe
instruction for children regarding the
facts of life and birth: and IL. this
unhooi Of gelf- conservation has n avs-