Hunt: Matrimonial Views of Students 



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have an important place. But young 

 people should be induced to form those 

 sentimental attachments that will lead 

 to racial betterment rather than deteri- 

 oration. 



The importance of environment in 

 providing the fertile soil in which the 

 seeds of hereditary promise may grow, 

 should not be minimized. But the 

 prevalence in democracies like ours of 

 the fallacious dogma of human equality 

 makes it imperative to emphasize the 

 fundamental importance of heredity. 



SUMMARY 



It is impossible to say to what extent 

 the views of these students will affect 

 their future conduct with reference to 

 matrimony, but undoubtedly there will 

 be an effect. 



For the most part the attitude of the 

 students in the University of Missis- 



sippi is morally and eugenically good. 

 Almost all the men and about three- 

 quarters of the women intend to marry, 

 if circumstances permit. The average 

 size of family preferred is four children. 

 This number is sufficient to replace this 

 group in the next generation. The 

 relative rating of those traits which are 

 usually considered in choosing a hus- 

 band or wife are morally, and for the 

 most part eugenically, sound. Doubt- 

 less the questionnaires were filled out 

 by the better class of students, since 

 one would naturally suppose that such 

 students would be most likely to take 

 an interest in an investigation of this 

 kind. If this assumption is correct, 

 these findings are particularly gratify- 

 ing. As far as can be determined the 

 changes in attitude toward matrimony 

 have been mostly for the better, 

 showing that the moral .atmosphere 

 of the University is good. 



A German Statement of Eugenics 



Grundriss der Menschlichen Er- 



BLICHKEITSLEHRE UND RaSSENHY- 



GiENE, Band II: Menschliche Aus- 

 lese UND Rassenhygiene, von Dr. 

 Fritz Lenz, privatdozent flir hygiene 

 an der Universitat Miinchen, pp. 251, 

 preis des I u. II Bandes in 1 Band 

 gebunden, 1)2.60; Miinchen, J. F. 

 Lehmanns Verlag, 1921. 



One of the encouraging facts about 

 the science of eugenics is that it has now 

 become somewhat stabilized. Take the 

 presentation of the leaders of the move- 

 ment in the United States, England, 



France, and Germany, for instance, and 

 there will be found to be remarkably 

 little divergence among them, on funda- 

 mental questions of eugenic policy. 

 The present book, which is quite the 

 best I have seen from the Continent, 

 gives a sound and conservative account 

 of natural and artificial selection in 

 man, of "social race hygiene" and of 

 "private race hygiene." Although it is 

 not well documented, it will be of great 

 interest to all in the United States who 

 are concerned with the eugenics move- 

 ment. In Germany it has already gone 

 into a second edition. — P.P. 



Biology and Religion 



The Direction of Human Evolu- 

 tion, by Edwin Grant Conklin, pro- 

 fessor of biology in Princeton Uni- 

 versity. Pp. 247, price $2.50. New 

 York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. 

 This series of lectures, delivered on a 

 foundation calling for discussion of the 

 mutual bearings of science and religion, 



will give the reader who has little ac- 

 quaintance with biology a good idea of 

 some of the broader fundamental con- 

 cepts. Its widespread perusal should 

 help to make for a better understanding 

 of the application of the doctrine of 

 evolution to many important problems 

 of human philosophy and politics. — P.P. 



