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the ingredients in the melting pot be 
sound at the beginning, for one does not 
improve the amalgam by putting in 
dross.” 
of Heredity 
They therefore hold that the indis- 
criminate admission of alien immigrants 
to the United States should be slowed 
up. 
Eugenics in Scandinavia 
“We are going to start this month a 
weekly or monthly review under the 
title Den Nordiske Race. ‘The review 
will be printed in Kjobenhayn and ed- 
ited from Winderen Laboratorium in 
Kristiania. The time has come to or- 
ganize a work for the Nordic race, 
especially based on applied race-biologie 
or race-hygiene. Some of the best 
scientists in our Scandinavian countries 
are my fellow-workers. The review will 
be printed in the Scandinavian lan- 
guages, but will contain short transla- 
tions of the original articles into English 
or German, so that the Scandinavian 
workers will be able to come in con- 
tact with fellow-workers all the world 
over.” 
This is a portion of a letter written 
by Dr. Jon Alfred Mjoen of the Win- 
deren Laboratory, Christiana, Norway, 
to the chairman of the Eugenics Re- 
search Committee of the American 
Genetic Association, who replied as 
follows: 
“The idea of founding a journal con- 
cerned with the Nordic race should 
meet with earnest and widespread en- 
couragement. It is particularly fitting 
that such a journal should emanate 
from Scandinavia, the original home of 
this dominant race, which many waves 
of migration have carried forth to all 
parts of the world. 
“Doubtless other races than the Nor- 
dic possess many desirable traits of 
emotion and imagination, but the far- 
flung Northern race is the only one 
that excels in practical administration 
and devotion to scientific discovery. The 
Normans were great administrators. 
They came from Scandinavia. Prob- 
ably the ruling and noble classes among 
the Greeks, northern Italians, Spanish 
and Portuguese came from the north, 
though somewhat mixed with southern 
blood. For a thousand years the royal 
families of Europe have exerted great 
influence and have acted and reacted on 
its history in an important way. The 
genealogies of these people can be 
traced through long generations, and 
these lineages lead almost without ex- 
ception directly back to the shores of 
the Baltic. 
“As regards science, both pure and 
applied, the history of science proves 
that, barring the work of the Greeks, 
original advances have been made al- 
most entirely by peoples of Nordic ori- 
gin. England, Scotland, France, Ger- 
many, Norway, Sweden, Denmark— 
all exceed their share in the production 
of men of scientific eminence. Russia, 
Treland, Austria, Spain, Portugal, the 
Balkan countries and all Eastern lands 
fall short of non-Nordic countries. 
Switzerland alone exceeds its quota. 
“Tf one is interested in the develop- 
ment of the world in practical adminis- 
tration, or the advancement of pure or 
applied science, one should feel not 
only a devotion towards the Great Race, 
on account of its past achievements, but~ 
should never cease to realize the high 
obligation towards posterity, and the 
need for preserving and forwarding its 
traditions, by understanding its past 
and expanding its future.” 
