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ture," there will be a multiplication of criminality, 

 harlotry, and pauperism. It should be noted, if it 

 is not too obvious, that the name Juke was fictitious, 

 so that the publication of "The Jukes" of re- 

 stricted circulation in any case did not induce any 

 Nemesis analogous to what follows giving a dog a 

 bad name. But the chance discovery (in 1911) of 

 Mr. Dugdale's original manuscript has made it 

 possible to recover the real names, and with these 

 as clues, but still suppressed, Dr. Arthur H. Esta- 

 brook has followed up, with all possible carefulness, 

 the dismal story of the Jukes down to 1915. The 

 reason for referring here to such a grim subject 

 was expressed long ago by Huxley, when he said: 

 " There is no alleviation for the sufferings of man- 

 kind except veracity of thought and of action, and 

 the resolute facing of the world as it is." 



In his preface to the sequel to " The Jukes,'* 

 Dr. C. B. Davenport, the indefatigable director of 

 the Laboratory of Experimental Evolution at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, gives a picture of the headquarters 

 of the Jukes when their history as a strain began. 

 " Into an isolated region, now within two hours' 

 railroad journey of the nation's metropolis, there 

 drifted nearly a century and a half ago a number 

 of persons whose constitution did not fit them for 

 participation in a highly-organized society." There 

 were, of course, various degrees of inadequacy; 

 and the retired, well-wooded, and well-watered 

 valley (one thinks of " The Country of the Blind ") 

 doubtless gave many of the immigrants a chance to 



