New Walks in Old Ways 



not quite so much "jazz" in our music; 

 but who would have body-bulk enough 

 to move our mountains and pianos? 

 So it is more than likely that we shall 

 go on as we are, trusting to blind 

 chance; meantime enlarging our peni- 

 tentiaries, sanitariums, homes for the 

 feeble-minded, poor farms, divorce 

 courts, and military establishments. 



There is no fact more thoroughly 

 demonstrated in animal breeding than 

 that out-crossing gives fresh vigor, and 

 that long-continued inbreeding within 

 narrow limits brings inevitable deteri- 

 oration; but in the face of this known 

 fact royalty still insists upon marrying 

 only royalty. Hence Hapsburg im- 

 beciles and Hohenzollern irresponsibles. 

 They are themselves to be pitied, for 

 there is only irresponsibility, idiocy and 

 lunacy forced upon them. They never 

 had a chance from the beginning, and 

 it cost the bloodiest war in history to 

 get rid of them. A degenerate prince 

 of the blood, who loved and married a 



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