The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



Re'versed 



selection 



through 



abuse of 



charity 



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men and women leave no descendants, their 

 own spirit, at least, will fail of inheritance. 

 A people careless of religion inherit this 

 trait from equally careless ancestors. 



Indiscriminate charity has been a fruitful 

 cause of the survival of the unfit. To kill 

 the strong and feed the weak is to provide 

 for a progeny of weakness. It is a French 

 writer, again, who says that "Charity creates 

 the misery she tries to reHeve; she can never 

 relieve half the misery she creates." 



Unwise charity is responsible for half the 

 pauperism of the world. That pauperism 

 has become perpetual is due in part to the 

 charity that, in aiding the poor, helps pau- 

 perism to mate with pauperism. It is the 

 duty of true charity to remove the causes 

 of weakness and suffering. It is equally her 

 duty to see that weakness and suffering are 

 not needlessly perpetuated. 



Startling results may follow from the se- 

 lective breeding and preservation of pau- 

 pers. In the valley of Aosta in northern 

 Italy, and in other Alpine regions, is found 

 the form of idiocy known as cretinism. What 

 is the primitive cause of the cretin^ and what 



