28 Heredity and Child Culture 



heredity and the intellectual, social, and moral 

 responsibilities of our times are too great for 

 many men." This is one of our present- 

 day troubles, as the physical, intellectual and 

 social developments of the age have out-dis- 

 tanced its moral development. Lathrop Stod- 

 dard ^ puts it thus, — ''The truth is that as civi- 

 lization advances it leaves behind multitudes of 

 human beings who have not the capacity to 

 keep pace. ***** These are not 'degener- 

 ates'; they are 'primitives,^ carried over into 

 a social environment in which they do not be- 

 long." The intelligence tests made upon large 

 numbers of young men recruited for the army 

 during the last war showed an astonishingly 

 large number of morons whose mental age did 

 not exceed twelve years. 



Again to quote Professor Conn, — "Our 

 eugenists tell us that an evil trait may persist 

 in a family for generations in spite of any kind 

 of training and even in spite of mating with one 

 in whom the weakness is lacking. The laws of 

 organic heredity make it hopeless to strive in 



1 The Revolt Against Civilization — Charles Scribner's Sons. 



