The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-14

healthy and intellectual children, and
therefore is extremely vide subject. as
anything which is calculated to lead TO the
moral intellectual. physical and social I'M
provement of the human race; but as charity
begins at home are primarily concerned
with national eugenics. the improvement OF
our breed and we should endeayor that the
Englishspeaking peoples shall not be out
stripped In the human race.
We are naturally concerned with the study
OF sexual subjects which trying TO
raise from that disgracefu rbaldry and OBJ
scenity with which mankind has frequently
treated this sacred function. The propagation
of the species is the highest and noblest
function Of the human body. and when people
begin to recognize the enormous responsibility
they incur in bringing human beings into the
world this function will be studied and exer.
cised to elevate and not to debase mankind.
Only or the wonderful working OF Natures
laws in eliminating the unfit. the haphazard
manner In which this function has been
ally exercised would have left us with an even
more degenerate population than that which
we now possess. II the same care were taken
POSSESS.
The science OF Eugenics labors under great
difficulties, because it is popularity misunder-
stood One hears It constantly stated that the
eugenist wishes to introduce to the human
race the principle OF the stud.farm and scen-
,ifc breeding as carried out in the lower crea.
tell you plainly that the factors which make
for the higher evolution Of the human
are extremely numerous. and not all we'll un.
derstood, so we only wish to educate the pub
lie In known facts, and then allow the fit to
work out their own salvation in their
way
Inc TO give him my ideas to the measure
ments of the perfect 1t very COM
plimentary to be asked to set up such stand
ard. but did not quite like the work as felt
would in ha
cold and would great risk of being
literally scalped. SO simply replied that had
Species and did not know what he was going
to do with the perfect man when he found him.
as such probably would not be fit for this mum
dane sphere but in my opinion the mind is the
measure oe the man. felt then that was on
safe ground. every would apply his own
measure and would frequently stretch inch
TO an ell. You rarely meet with a miserable
being who does not think he has got gigantic
mind.
Robert Louis Stevenson was beautiful
writer and many OF his epigrams are very fine,
but much OF his writings will not bear analysis
according to the hard rules of facts, and l
convinced that II he had not been phthisical he
would have written better and much more
sanely. shall leave to teetotal friends the
question of his sanity when he wrote: Lastly
land this is, perhaps. the golden rule) no
woman should marry a teetotaller or
who does not smoke" I know great many
women who hold that this Is the most sane ad.
vice which Stevenson ever gave.
Sir Francis Cation, the FOUNDER OF the Eu.
genics Education Society, defined eugenics
"the study Of agencies under social control
that may improve or impair the racial qualities
of future generations either physically or men.
tally" II you treat the subject from the broad
standpoint Of national eugenics, then every
nation has largely the control Of its own des-
tiny, except for interference from Its neigh
bors, and 1t Is the duty Of every nation to
maintain It's virility. so that 1t may be able to
meet its opponents and competitors on equal
terms.
The laws of Mendel show that the evolution
of the race does not arise from any fortuitous
concentration OF circumstances but follows
definite laws. Each individual whether animal
or vegetable. arises from the union Of two
ganisms. male end female or. they are
termed gametes, and the fertiliZed ovum or
individual Is spoken OF as the Zygote. Now
the great law Of Mendel consists In showing
that the characte. Of the individual depends
on the segregation or separation of the gametes
of the parents and their union to form the off
spring 1t is highly probable that the deter
mination of sex itself may eventually be found
to be due to such segregation
The Mendelian law upsets the Darwinian
conception Of evolution as proceeding through
the gradual transformation of masses OF In
dividuals BY the accumulation of mpalpable
changes. The great advantage of the Men
delian stem Is that 1t is analytical and ex'
detrimental, so that IL the system rigidly
carried out you could breed whatever charac-
tiers you wanted in few generations. The
difficulty is to know what characters lead to
the elevation Of the race, but if we do not
know al. the characters we want VIC do know
many of those which we dc not want. so we
should begin our campaign by eliminating the
undesirables. the idiots the mbeciles, the
feeble minded, the insane, the useless wastrels.
the professional paupers. the habitual drunk
ards, the habitual criminals. and many her
edtary diseases.
am frequently asked the question: How
Is it that very great men often have very
commonplace sons? And some of my
Radical friends frequently hurl the name
of the lat- Right Honorable William Ewart
Gladstone at my head, as the best ex.
ample they can coniure up. This. think, is
very rough on the family and very inconsider-
ate On the part o. my Radical friends. I do not
know anything about the family. nor do
know anything about the late, Mrs Gladstone,
who had an important share in the production
Of the family, but do know that some of the
collateral branches of the Gladstone family are
far ahead of the average intelligence.
What is much more to the point, and this
APPLIES to other great men. who do not produce
able sons, the very exceptional greatness of
Mr. Gladstone was to large extent acquired by
his indomitable perseverance. and we know
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