2l6 MAN, THE ANIMAL 



breeders do with their domestic animals; they 

 have proved that it pays to select and eliminate. 

 The Homes for Feeble-Minded and the Insane 

 Hospitals of our Nation are crowded and yet we 

 have not reached the state of mind where we ap- 

 proach this problem in any way that seeks to 

 eliminate the cause, — to check the supply.^ 



But there is a field of progress in which nearly 

 all are agreed and that is that man should keep 

 his body free from sexual diseases. Mankind has 

 taken immediate advantage of the scientific revela- 

 tions in this field and made stringent legal regula- 

 tions governing the methods of prevention of 

 blindness to children from infections at birth. The 

 next step should be to protect the mother from 

 a similar infection with all of its attendant suf- 

 fering which is mainly due to man's heedlessness 

 and self-centered interest. No more needs to be 

 discovered in this domain to encourage any one 

 who will give serious thought to the problem and 

 accept the responsibility of being a man. 



Closely allied with progress in these applied 

 fields of biogenesis is the advance that mankind 

 is making in keeping the body free from that 

 group of diseases that have in epidemic form de- 

 stroyed thousands of animals, plants and man. 

 The cause of these communicable diseases is well 



1 There are more than two hundred thousand inmates in the 

 Insane Hospitals of the United States. This number exceeds 

 the total enrollment of students in our colleges and universities. 



