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Besides these special bureaus of investigation, innu- 

 merable facts about the inheritance of particular traits 

 are being incidentally brought together and made avail- 

 able in various institutions and asylums throughout 

 the world immediately concerned with the care of de- 

 fectives of different types. It is in connection with 

 such institutions for defectives that much of the most 

 successful "field work" is being accomplished in the 

 United States. 



4. FURTHER APPLICATION OF WHAT WE KNOW 

 NECESSARY 



Human performance always lags behind human 

 knowledge. Many persons who are fully aware of the 

 right procedure do not put their knowledge into prac- 

 tice. It follows, therefore, that any program of eu- 

 genics which does not grip the imagination of the 

 common people in such a way as to become an effective 

 part of their very lives is bound to remain largely an 

 academic affair for Utopians to quarrel and theorize 

 over. 



It is not enough to collect facts and work out an 

 analysis and interpretation of them, for, important 

 as this preliminary step is, it must be followed by a 

 convincing campaign of education. 



The lives of the unborn do not force themselves 

 upon the average man or woman with the same insis- 

 tency as lives already begun. In the midst of the 

 overwhelming demands of the present, the appeal of 

 posterity for better blood is vague and remote. If 



