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fore the age of 40, but that among college 

 women only half that number have married at 

 the same age. As a result of investigations at 

 one of the leading women's colleges he finds 

 that the marriage and birth rate of the most 

 brilliant students, who have been elected mem- 

 bers of Phi Beta Kappa, is lowest of all. Cat- 

 tell says that a Harvard graduate has on the 

 average three-fourths of a son, a Vassar grad- 

 uate one-half of a daughter. 



At present early and fruitful marriages 

 among able and ambitious people are very un- 

 fashionable and are becoming increasingly im- 

 practicable. If society has any regard for its 

 own welfare all this must be changed. As 

 Galton has shown, the race that marries at 22 

 instead of 33 will possess the earth in two or 

 three centuries. 



The good of society demands that we re- 

 verse our methods of putting a premium upon 

 celibacy among our most gifted and ambitious 

 young men and women, and if monastic orders 

 and institutions are to continue they should 

 be open only to the eugenicially unfit. 



.5. The Declining Birth Mate and the Death 



