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suffer for the benefit of the many. It is the duty of 

 the state to see that such unfortunates are tended 

 and cared for, and that their lives are made, so far as 

 is possible, bright and cheerful. But that they should 

 be permitted to hand down their disease to innocent 

 children, any more than the sick one should give his 

 small-pox to his neighbours, is unfair to society and 

 to the race. 



