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among- its employees and patrons which 

 was of special eugenic interest, al- 

 though it was not a scientific treatise, 

 and the word "eugenics" did not occur 

 in it. The slogan of this company is 

 "Civility," and this pamphlet contained 

 more than three hundred and fifty pic- 

 tures of small children, sons and 

 daughters of the company's employees, 

 or as they termed them, the "children 

 of civility." It is this company's un- 

 expressed intention to ameliorate the 

 public manners of the citizens of New 

 York — which everyone admits leave 

 much to be desired — by setting them 

 an example of politeness in the per- 

 sons of the company's employees who 

 serve this public, and it proposes to 



rear a breed of civil people by en- 

 couraging its men to marry and raise 

 large families, or as they put it, to 

 "out-populate the barbarian." This 

 idea is worthy of consideration by all 

 thoughtful people, and is infinitely 

 more important than the consideration 

 of the ethics and advisability of the 

 sterilization or segregation of the un- 

 fit, although I do not wish to be un- 

 derstood as in any way belittling that 

 side of the question. The maintenance 

 of the superiority of any race depends 

 in the last analysis upon the number 

 of superior individuals of which that 

 race is composed, not in the number 

 of inferior ones that are missing from 

 it. 



References 



C.A.STLE, W. E. Genetics and Eugenics. Harvard University' Press, Cambridge, 1916. 



Davenport, C. B. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 191 1. 



Galton, Francis. Inquiries Into Human Faculty. Evcryiuan's Library, Ed. 1907. 

 Hereditary Genius. Ed. 1914. 



GuYER, Michael F. Being Well Born. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merril Co., 1916. 



Jordan, H. E. Eugenics. The Rearing of the Human Thoroughbred. The Eugenical 

 Aspect of Venereal Disease. Address delivered before the American Society for Study 

 and Prevention of Infant Mortality. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1912. 



PoPENOE, P., and Johnson, H. H. Applied Eugenics. Macmillan, 1920. 



Heredity and Eugenics. A course of lectures by W. E. Castle, J. M. Coulter, C. B. 

 Davenport, E. M. East and W. L. Tower, Univ. of Chicago Press, 191 7. 



Embryology and Heredity 



KOMPENDIUM DER EnTWICKLUNGSGE- 



scHicHTE DES Menschen, mit 



BeREUCKSICHTIGUNG DER WlRBEL- 



tiere, by Dr. L. Michaelis, Priv- 

 atdozent an der Universitaet Ber- 

 lin. Ninth edition. With 54 text 

 figures and two plates. Pp. 160. 

 Price, 65 cents. Leipzig, Verlag von 

 George Thieme, 1921. 



Thirty or forty years ago the stuch^ 

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of research. It may be that embry- 

 ology had for the time being reached 

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 All tools for the worker are welcome, 

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