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peopling the world with a race of defective degenerates 

 who would probably commit his sin a thousand times 

 over, was doubtless not perceived or realized. It is 

 only after the lapse of six generations that we are able 

 to look back, count up and see the havoc that was 

 wrought by that one thoughtless act. 



Now that the facts are known, let the lesson be 

 learned ; let the sermons be preached ; let it be im- 

 pressed upon our young men of good family that they 

 dare not step aside for even a moment. Let all possible 

 use be made of these facts, and something will be ac- 

 complished. 



But even so the real problem will not be solved. Had 

 Martin Kallikak remained in the paths of virtue, there 

 still remained the nameless feeble-minded girl, and there 

 were other people, other young men, perhaps not of as 

 good a family as Martin, perhaps feeble-minded like 

 herself, capable of the same act and without Martin's 

 respectability, so that the race would have come down 

 even worse if possible than it was, because of having a 

 worse father. 



Others will look 'at the chart and say, "The diffi- 

 culty began with the nameless feeble-minded girl ; had 

 she been taken care of, all of this trouble would have 

 been avoided." This is largely true. Although feeble- 



