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Remarks. 



These records seem to me on the whole to be more satis- 

 factory than any others which I have collected, yet all these 

 young men and women, highly estimable and blameless though 

 their records would appear to be, are included in Mr. Mudge's 

 wholesale denunciation of the children boarded-out in lona, 

 which appears in the Mendel Journal for 1911. 



He says : " Faced with the pressing problem as to what is 

 to be done with this class of defective citizen, the Glasgow 

 Parish Council cast their municipal eyes upon the beautiful 

 and verdant Western Coast of Scotland and upon its honest 

 and simple inhabitants. ' Here/ they said, ' is a good environ- 

 ment, and a trusty people ; among the native population, God- 

 fearing and honest, we may find a human environment which 

 will appeal to the better nature of our morally and mentally 

 crippled citizens. We cannot hope to do much with the parents, 

 but with the children it is otherwise . . . and in the midst of 

 these honest people we will plant our tares, the children of 

 paupers, ne'er-do-wells, thieves, murderers, prostitutes, hooli- 

 gans, drunkards, &c. From such an ancestry we shall, with 

 ratepayers' money and good environment, rear a community of 

 civic saints.' 



" But let us leave the intentions and come to the results ; 

 they are the very reverse of what it was intended they should 

 be. Doubtless in a few cases there have been ostensible 

 successes ; I say ostensible, because in some of the supposed 

 successful cases, with which I am acquainted, a sufficiently 

 long period has not elapsed to enable me to judge of permanent 

 success, and in a few cases it is possible that the ancestry has 

 not been bad. 



" Leaving then these questionable, untested, and unanalysed 

 successes alone, what are the results with regard to the re- 

 mainder ? 



" We may sum them up in a single sentence. It is, that in 



