iSS HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS 



ing. Even well-meant attempts at philanthropy 

 have been so poorly administered that they have 

 often increased rather than diminished the evils 

 at which they were directed. 



Temperance-workers have wasted their energies 

 in agitation for laws impossible to execute in large 

 cities, and have left the intemperate in unim- 

 proved conditions of temptation and tendency. 

 The only attempt of which I have heard at a 

 careful study of the relation of heredity to inebri- 

 ety by such reforms is the Bureau of Heredity 

 of the W. C. T. U., and this is of recent date. 

 Temperance agitators have almost uniformly 

 ignored the duty of providing something better 

 for those from whom an evil indulgence is taken. 

 Inquiries concerning how the masses live ; con- 

 cerning sanitary conditions, and their relation to 

 the virtue and vice of the people ; concerning the 

 causes of pauperism and crime, have seldom been 

 started by professional agitators. Law-makers 

 have done perhaps less. Those who were elected 

 because they were the tools of criminal-makers 

 have devoted their hours of idleness to ignoring 

 the questions which were to be decided by their 

 votes. 



Others have gone on year after year making 

 laws concerning tramps, and tramps have multi- 



