IX. 



SEVEN PRINCIPAL LAWS OF HEREDITY. 



PEELUDE ON CUKRENT EVENTS. 



THE able-bodied pauper deserves and seems likely 

 to be improved off the face of the earth. Unskil- 

 fully organized, hap-hazard Christian philanthropy 

 is food on which he fattens. 



We do the work of going from house to house by 

 proxy ; and, from year to year, let slip the opportu- 

 nity of obtaining clear ideas concerning the shrewd- 

 est methods of poor-relief. Twenty centuries will 

 discuss this topic yet. In addition to measures of 

 colonization, land-ownership, and a re-distribution 

 of the unemployed, it will be found remunerative 

 to cast a glance at Elberfeld on the Rhine, and Ger- 

 mantown on the Schuylkill, where very successful 

 experiments have been made in the abolition of able- 

 bodied pauperism. 



The city of Elberfeld, in Germany, is near Dus- 

 seldorf, and has at present a population of about 

 eighty thousand inhabitants. By a judicious system 

 of district visitation, it has reduced the number of 



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