14 HEREDITY AND SOCIAL FITNESS 



Jared each $2, "with what he has got" ; and appointed a guardian "over 

 the old woman, Herman, and Dorcas." 



The eldest son, Isaac (II-l), was a faithful, plodding, non-aggressive 

 man with little ability to plan and calculate. He married an aggres- 

 sive woman of average ability to calculate, but who lacked nervous and 

 sex control and came from a family showing alcoholism and nervous 

 instability. Their six children (HI-l, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9) were very diverse, 

 and through their marriages gave rise to branches widely divergent in 

 respect to these traits. They will be considered in Line A. 



The second son, Jared (H-S), had, like his brother Isaac, little abil- 

 ity to plan and calculate and was besides shiftless and dishonest. 

 The wife was fairly aggressive and persevering, but sexual looseness on 

 her part brought into this family two illegitimate sons of known 

 paternity. They bore the name of Jared Rufer and were brought up 

 as his own. The posterity of these children furnishes some con- 

 clusions on the relative value of blood and environment. They will 

 be considered under Line B. 



The third child, Ellen (II-7) is said to have had in fair measure cal- 

 culating ability, aggressiveness, and perseverance. She married early, 

 removed to another State, and became lost to the rest of her family. 



The third son, Stephen (II-9), show^ed fair ability to calculate. He 

 was nonaggressive but overpersevering in tasks set him by others. He 

 married a shrew^d, aggressive, persevering woman belonging to a strain 

 showing the same traits. The defects of his mother have not appeared 

 in later generations of his line. They will be considered in Line C. 



The fourth son was Darius (11-11), nonaggressive but faithful and 

 plodding, with low ability to calculate. He married the aggressive, in- 

 dustrious sister of his brother Isaac's wife. Their children, who were 

 very diverse and married into different strains, cause this line (D) to 

 break up into divergent branches, some of which are decidedly de- 

 generate. 



The remaining children of Aaron, Dorcas (11-13) and Herman (II- 

 14), "didn't know anything at all." With commendable foresight 

 their father thought to provide against their marriage by appointing 

 a guardian, who was to see that his wishes were carried out. Dorcas 

 never did marry and was kept by her brother Stephen until her death. 

 Because Herman had been left a good farm, designing people arranged 

 a marriage with him in order to provide a home for a woman who was 

 deficient mentally and sexually lax. They w^ere the progenitors of 

 Line E. Their four children were all defective in ability to plan 

 and calculate, though some showed a degree of aggressiveness and per- 

 severance. Two died without marrying; the remaining two married 

 into lines belonging to the second network shown on Chart B, an 

 account of which is given in the following paragraph. 



