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and wuinaii. W'r arc now jnst be<,nnning lo U-arn tans in 

 this Held wliieli nmy savu our present civilization In.ni the 

 decays that have overtaken those of tlie past. Whatever a 

 man may claim for personal hhcriy. m* oiu- can ( laim any 

 right to even risk mental or i)hysical inipaiiiiicnt of his 

 own offspring or to inij)ose the cai«' of defectives upon tlie 

 community. Alcohol is hcing ))arrc(l from athletics, from 

 the army and navy, from public service, and fr<>m all busi- 

 ness, public and private, where strengtli, endurance, and 

 dependability are required, antl the evidence given above 



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Fig. 168. Recessive character of feeble-mindedness and effects of alcoholism 



Small black circles indicate stilll)irth.s: d, died : d. inf.. died in infancy : t. tnl)«T- 

 cnlar: r. unknown. For other symbols see Fiij. 1(>7. After (ioddard 



would seem not only to give society the right but to impose 

 111)011 it the dutv of banishiiio: alcohol from aiiv i)ossible 

 contact with the supreme business of evolving the race. 

 *' You can't be strong and well unless you ///v ri;/hf." 

 These words of Jess Willard are lite-wide in their apj)liea- 

 tion. We are iust beo'inniiiL;- to learn tVoni the new \ ii'w- 

 point of eugenics. Drugs like morphine and opium, cocaine 

 and heroin, must be studied with special reference to their in- 

 fluence upon the germ plasm. The same is tine (d' nii-otine, 

 and it may be that we shall have to set the age at whii-li 

 indulgence in tobacco mav safely be begun at lifty-tive 

 years instead of at the usual sixteen or t w cntv-ctne. .\nv 



