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ties, even when not handicapped by their bad family name, and 

 despite being surrounded by better social conditions". More signifi- 

 cant still is the example of Kallikak, 



"a soldier of the Revolutionary war, from whose first son by a feeble- 

 minded girl, have descended 480 individuals, of whom 143 are known 

 to have been feeble, and only 46 known as normal, while the others are 

 unknown or doubtful. After the war, however, Kallikak married a 

 woman of good stock; and thus with 496 direct descendants, among 

 whom only two were alcoholic, and one known to be sexually immoral ; 

 while the others have been doctors, lawyers, judges, educators, traders, 

 land-holders; in short respectable citizens, men and women prominent 

 in every phase of social life . These two families have lived on the same 

 soil . . . yet the bar sinister has marked every generation of the one, 

 and has been unknown in the other ." 



Probably the culminating illustration as yet for Eugenics on the 

 credit side is given by the descendants of the famous Jonathan 

 Edwards; "of whom all but 1,400 were recorded by igoo — of whom 

 295 were college graduates, and 13 presidents of our greatest col- 

 leges; 65 professors, besides many principals; 60 physicians, many 

 eminent; 100 and more clergymen, missionaries or theological 

 professors, 75 officers in army and navy; 60 prominent authors and 

 writers (135 books of merit, 18 important periodicals edited)." 

 Similarly in law and politics and administration, up to many judges 

 and ambassadors, mayors of cities, senators and governors of states, 

 even to the Vice-Presidency of the U.S. Again in business, and on 

 the highest grade — presiding over great industries, banks, insurance 

 companies and the Pacific Steamship line, and no less than 15 

 railroads! "Almost if not every department of social progress and 

 of the public weal has felt the impulse of this healthy and long-lived 

 family. It is not known that any one of them was ever convicted of 

 crime." Here surely is the record for that superiority of the sons of 

 the parsonage and the manse which appears in such strikingly high 

 proportion in the British Dictionary of National Biography. 



Of course all the above pedigrees are record ones ; and it is obvious 

 that each type, good and bad, must have been maintained and 

 accented by corresponding matings. Witness again the sixty re- 

 corded good musicians of the Bach family — or for a modern English 

 example, the Darwin, Wedgwood, and Galton alliances, since so 

 well illustrating how eugenic superiorities may be combined, and 

 towards production of many exceptional men of talent, and even 

 genius: so likely to be long continued, with talents maintained and 

 developed; and even the strains of hereditary genius appearing 

 anew. Verifiable kindred cases are ever increasingly disclosed, albeit 

 of course generally less rich in numbers and in quality; yet amply 

 enough to justify the wide resumption of family pedigrees, and 

 towards volumes of "Eugenic Families" more socially significant and 



