erations, the fact that such marriages are 

 sanctioned is scandalous and infamous." 

 (Whymper: Scrambles among the Alps.) 



True charity would give these creatures not 

 less helpful care, but a care which would 

 guarantee that each individual cretin should 

 be the last of his generation. 



The causes of goitre are obscure, perhaps 

 depending on poor nutrition or on mineral 

 substances in the water. The disease itself 

 is not hereditary, so far as known; but sus- 

 ceptibility to it certainly is. By taking away 

 for outside service those who are resistant, 

 the heredity of tendency to goitrous swell- 

 ing is fastened on those who remain. 



Like these mothers in Savoy was a mother 

 in Germany. Not long since a friend of the 

 writer, passing through a Franconian forest, 

 found a young man lying senseless by the 

 way. It was a young recruit for the army 

 who had got into some trouble with his com- 

 rades. They had beaten him and left him 

 lying with a broken head. Carried to his 

 home, his mother fell on her knees and 

 thanked God, for this injury had saved him 

 from the army. 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



Sa'ved 

 from the 

 army 



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