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often of the offspring's offspring before they 

 can predict the characters of the parents. 



From our standpoint we are forced to 

 realize that in judging of social conduct 

 e.g. of the suitability of persons for charity, 

 etc., we should be particular in inquiring 

 concerning ancestry. Pity and help the 

 weak, but remember that it is a national evil 

 when any charitable or social institution 

 allows the indefinite multiplication of the 

 unfit in mind or body. 



In all social work and in all legislative 

 action true progress is impossible if the 

 reformer and the legislator do not know and 

 pay attention to the principles of heredity. 



Major L. Darwin moved a vote of thanks 

 to Professor Pearson, and said his own 

 interest in the subject was inherited ; and 

 he gave an emphatic warning against the 

 evils which may, without care, result from 

 the present movement for educating defective 

 children. The danger was lest their educa- 

 tion, by making their departure from the 

 ordinary standard less obvious, should make 

 it possible for them to marry and hand on 

 their defects of mind and body to their 

 descendants. 



