36 THE MENDEL JOURNAL 



too often, alas, inflicted in the name of humanity and 

 civihsation, of compelling so-called savage tribes to 

 conform to habits to which they were not born, to 

 live up to aspirations that Nature has rendered alien 

 to their understanding, and to burden them with 

 luxuries which carry the seed of racial sterility, is a 

 punishment too heavy for any race to bear. 



