CONTENTS. xv 



Causes of Feeble-Mindedness Narcotics and Feeble-Mindedness Intem- 

 perate Mothers Abortive Drugs and Epilepsy Degenerates Willfully 

 Produced An Appalling Crime The Final Remedy Insanity Increase 

 of Insanity Chief Causes of Insanity Hereditary Insanity Lombroso 

 Criminal Insanity Dr. Guy's Conclusions Alcohol and Insanity. 



XIX. HEREDITY, HOMICIDE AND SUICIDE 279 295 



The Increase of Crime Crime in New York City Crime in the 

 United States Frequency of Suicide Foreign Criminals Alcohol vs. 

 Heredity Hereditary Suicidal Tendencies Suicide of an Oxford Student 

 A Family Mania The Ishmael Family Descendants of *Frau Ada 

 Jurke Statistics in Criminal Heredity Per Cent of Hereditary Criminals 

 The Principal Causes of Crime The Well-Born Seldom Commit Crime 

 The Occasional Criminal The Hereditary Criminal The Juvenile Offender 

 Increase of Hereditary Criminals Bad Maternal Impressions Two 

 Sons Born in Crime Attempted Abortion Produces Criminals Prenatal 

 History of Vicious Children Suicidal Tendencies in a Child A Would-Be 

 Parricide Undesired Maternity A Mother-Made Criminal Extreme 

 Cruelty Inborn A Mother's Confession An Awful Awakening Increase 

 of Criminal Abortion Statistics on Infanticide Dr. Chandler on Pre- 

 natal Mortality Number of Prenatal Murders Is Abortion Murder? 

 Dr. Stockham on Criminal Abortion Crime Inevitable The Sin of 

 Christendom The Infant Host The Judgment Day of Nations At the 

 Threshold of Eternity. 



XX. HEREDITY AND COMMERCIALISM 296309 



Mammon Worship The Power of Wealth Poverty a Disgrace The 

 Right to Acquire Abuses of Wealth Succeeding Generations Affected 

 Slaving Is Unnecessary Excessive Toil Injures Offspring Children Born 

 Tired Overwork Depletes the Brain Commercialism Begets Selfishness 

 Mind Is a Limited Quantity What Constitutes a Genius The Future 

 American Gold May Rule to Ruin Selfishness Begets Dishonesty Dis- 

 honest Children from Honest Parents Business Deception Produces 

 Criminals The Offspring of Thieves A Family of Counterfeiters In- 

 crease of the Gambling Instinct Gambling Common to All Classes 

 Tendency Towards Gambling Inborn A Characteristic of Gamblers 

 Fourth of July Bombast Class Distinction Nihilism and Anarchy 

 Ling, the Anarchist The Colored Criminal The Product of Slavery 

 Money and Matrimony Character a Secondary Consideration Unhappy 

 Unions Commercial Bondage Where Criminals Are Born Poverty and 

 Crime Environment and Crime Commercialism and Vice Scene in a 

 Sweat Shop A Struggle for Existence Shop Girls as Wives and Mothers. 



XXI. HEREDITY AND INTEMPERANCE 310332 



King Alcohol More Cruel Than War Basis of Reckoning Chief 

 Cause of Hard Times Annual Cost of Narcotics Cost of the Liquor 

 Traffic Revenues Collected A Conservative Estimate Liquor vs. Gov- 

 ernment Expenses A Startling Comparison The Greatest Commercial 

 Problem Poverty and Heredity The Family of the Inebriate Intem- 

 perance and Poverty The Poor Man's Bank Drink and the Labor 

 Problem Intemperance and Crime Prison Statistics Parents of 

 Criminals Inebriety Transmitted Race Degeneracy Defective Offspring 

 from Alcoholics Temperate vs. Intemperate Parentage Demme's Observa- 



