THE APPLICATION TO MAN 301 



Dr. Esterbrook's prolonged study of the Jukes forty 

 years later is that not merely institutional care nor 

 better environment will cause good social reactions in 

 persons who are feeble-minded or feebly-inhibited, al- 

 though on the other hand, better stimuli will secure 

 better reactions from weak stock than will poor stimuli. 

 . . . The chief value of a detailed study of this sort 

 lies in this : that it demonstrates again the importance 

 of the factor of heredity." 



B. THE DESCENDANTS OF JONATHAN EDWAEDS 



In striking contrast to the case of Max Jukes is 

 that of Jonathan Edwards, the eminent divine, whose 

 famous progeny Winship describes as follows: "1394 

 of his descendants were identified in 1900, of whom 

 295 were college graduates; 13 presidents of our 

 greatest colleges, besides many principals of other im- 

 portant educational institutions; 60 physicians, many 

 of whom were eminent; 100 and more clergymen, 

 missionaries, or theological professors ; 75 were officers 

 in the army and navy ; 60 were prominent authors and 

 writers, by whom 135 books of merit were written and 

 published and 18 important periodicals edited; 33 

 American states and several foreign countries and 92 

 American cities and many foreign cities have profited 

 by the beneficent influence of their eminent activity; 

 100 and more were lawyers, of whom one was our most 

 eminent professor of law; 30 were judges; 80 held 

 public office, of whom one was vice-president of the 

 United States ; 3 were United States senators ; several 



