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INVOLUTION, GENETICS, AND EUGENICS 



tory show that 97 per cent are feeble-minded. In Massachusetts a 

 prominent commission reports that of 300 immoral women under de- 

 tention in that state 57 per cent were feeble-minded, while the rest 

 rated from nine to twelve years in mental age. On the basis of data 



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 ried twice; by a normal husband she had normal children; but by an alcoholic, 

 sex-offending (Sx), doubtless feeble-minded husband she had only feeble-minded 

 children. (From Davenport, after Goddard.) 



such as these, Goddard and others maintain that there is a very inti- 

 mate relation between crime, vice, and feeble-mindedness. Wipe out 

 the feeble-mindedness, say they, and you wipe out most of the vice 

 and crime. 



Feeble-mindedness has come to be the most pressing of all eugenic 

 problems — one that should at once be recognized and solved if possible. 



