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which tarnishes and covers it with verdigris ; it is 

 gold only that remains untarnished. Such ex- 

 perience as I have gathered in other fields of these 

 ostensible successes, does not lead me to believe that 

 they are of lasting duration, not even with the 

 individual, and not at all with his offspring. Leaving, 

 then, these questionable, untested, and unanalysed 

 successes alone, what are the results with regard 

 to the remainder ? They are precisely that which 

 the old adage " What is bred in the bone will come out 

 in the flesh " would lead us to anticipate. We may 

 sum them up in a single sentence. It is that, 

 in this beautiful island with its historic and even 

 sacred associations, a new slum area is being created 

 by the operation of the inherent slum instincts of 

 the putatively rescued denizens of Glasgow's slums. 

 Here we see in the making, not slum people by slum 

 environments, but slums fathomed out of the depths 

 of the slum instincts of a congenital race of slum 

 producers. Here in this island, where at one time 

 only ordinary human weaknesses prevailed, is now 

 heard the obscene language and the suggestive 

 songs of the slums ; here at night time, the Glasgow 

 rowdies congregate in bands and create noise and 

 disturbance. They link their arms and rushing 

 through the village street in a serried rank, shouting, 

 whistling, and gesticulating, drive all others before 

 them. Where there are maid servants, there they 

 collect in groups and indulge in language which is 

 not of the Highlands, but of Glasgow slums. No 

 windows are safe from them, and many have been 



