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lar causes are seen in the decline of royalty and nobility 

 of Europe as well as the degradation of European 

 cretins and thieves. There is no development without 

 activity, and no race is so perfect that judicious weed- 

 ing out could not improve it. 



What can be done to remedy this source of evil ? 

 To know the evil is to go half way toward its cure. 

 Penal reform, charities reform, civil-service reform, the 

 prohibition of pauper immigration, education in social 

 science all these look in the direction of cure. In 

 knowledge lies the surest remedy for most social and 

 political evils. Let us see our enemy 

 Taking away face to face and we can strike him< 



th ,?-'u fn ^ d0m Wh at more can be done is the work of 

 which is 



thraldom to sin " students of social science to determine. 

 Dr. Amos G. Warner has well said that 

 the "true function of charity is to restore to usefulness 

 those who are temporarily unfit, and to allow those un- 

 fit from heredity to become extinct with as little pain 

 as possible." Sooner or later the last duty will not be 

 less important and pressing than the first. Good blood 

 as well as free schools and free environment is essential 

 to the making of a nation. 



