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as has been previously stated, might be expected to react 

 unfavourably upon his future career. 



1. He was admitted at an age when it is difficult to 

 counteract the effects of a previous environment. 



2. It was found necessary to commit him to an asylum, 

 and, therefore, he has been classed as a mental case. 



3. On leaving the school he returned to his parents, 

 though the record states that his home was a bad one. 1 



Records 8 and 9 suggest interesting conclusions. The 

 children of a degenerate parent, probably by birth a member 

 of Class G, or possibly Class H, 2 they have been rescued 

 from the vicious environment into which their father's de- 

 generacy has plunged them, and have become at 22 and 21 

 respectively, so far as one can tell, decent, respectable 

 members of society. These children, if left to themselves, 

 and having no other alternative, would probably have followed 

 in their father's footsteps, and appear to have inherited his 

 vices. And it seems to me that it is often by illustrations 

 such as these that certain Eugenists endeavour to support 

 their theory of the futility of trying to redeem the members 

 of a racially degenerate stock. 



With regard to No. 11: This boy at the age of 17 \ 

 had already been engaged in four absolutely dissimilar occupa- 

 tions, and though I have given him the benefit of the doubt it 

 seems most probable that this should be classified as an 

 unsatisfactory case. 



THE X HOME FOR BOYS 



This Home was started about eleven years ago in one of 

 the suburbs of a great city. The accommodation is for 34 



1 I am inclined to think that there must have been some special reason for allow- 

 ing this boy to return to his friends, because in this school, as in all others of the 

 same nature, the greatest care is taken to prevent these children from returning to a 

 former environment ; for this reason many of them are sent straight to Canada, and 

 this is, of course, the raison d'etre of the Y. Emigration Homes. 



2 See page i, above. 



