HUMAN CONSERVATION 



and the canny Lucetta makes reply, 



"Aye, Madam, so you stumble not unheedfully." 



This advice is simply "organized common sense," and 

 romance, which dispenses with this balance-wheel, al- 

 though it may be entertaining and always exciting at 

 first, is sure to be disappointing in the end. Marriages 

 may be "made in heaven," but, as a matter of fact, 

 children are born and have to be brought up on earth, 

 and there is nothing particularly romantic in defective 

 children who might better never have been born. It fol- 

 lows without saying that it will be much easier to stamp 

 out bad germplasm when an educated sentiment be- 

 comes common among all people everywhere. 



D. SEGREGATION OF DEFECTIVES 



Persons with hereditary defects, such as epileptics, 

 idiots, and certain criminals, who become wards of 

 the state, should be segregated or confined in comfort 

 so that their germplasm may not escape to furnish 

 additional burdens upon society. "We have become 

 so used to crime, disease and degeneracy that we take 

 them for necessary evils. That they were, in the 

 world's ignorance, is granted. That they must remain 

 so, is denied" (Davenport). 



"The great horde of defectives once in the world 

 have the right to live and enjoy as best they may 

 whatever freedom is compatible with the lives and free- 

 dom of other members of society," says Kellicott, "but 

 society has a right to protect itself against repetitions 

 of hereditary blunders." 



