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(i) "Where the organization is structurally 

 modified, as in idiocy and insanity, or organically 

 weak, as in many diseases, the heredity is the 

 preponderating factor in determining the career; 

 but it is, even then, capable of marked modifica- 

 tion for better or worse by the character of the 

 environment. In other words, capacity, physical 

 and mental, is limited and determined mainly by 

 heredity." ^ 



(2) "Where the conduct depends on the knowl- 

 edge of moral obligation (excluding insanity and 

 idiocy), the environment has more influence than 

 the heredity. . . . The use to which capacity 

 shall be put is largely governed by the imper- 

 sonal training or agency of environment." ^ 



(3) The correction for vicious heredity is 

 change of environment. 



(4) " Environment tends to produce habits 

 which may become hereditary, especially so in 

 pauperism and licentiousness."^ 



" If these conclusions are correct, then the 

 whole question of the control of crime and pau- 

 perism becomes possible, within wide limits, if 

 the necessary training can be made to reach 

 over two or three generations. From the above 

 considerations the logical induction seems to be 



1 The Jukes, Dugdale, p. 65. « /^£^. p. 66. « Ibid 



