DEGENERATION. 



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of Aosta has been developed as a new species of man. 

 In fair weather the roads about the city are lined with 

 these awful paupers human beings with less intelli- 

 gence than the goose, with less decency than the pig. 





FIG. 27. A cretin of Aosta. (From a photograph by Dr. J. W. Jenks.) 



The asylum for cretins in Aosta is a veritable chamber 

 of horrors. The sharp words of Whymper are fully jus- 

 tified : 



"A large proportion of the cretins who will be born 

 in the next generation will undoubtedly be offsprings of 



