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lies at the lowest stage and can not produce mentally strong 

 children, — the children can not rise higher than the higher parent 

 in this character. 



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Fig. 8. This chart illustrates again the product of two feeble-minded 

 parents. The father belongs to a fair strain except that his brother also is 

 alcoholic. The mother, like her mother in turn, is immoral. There are 

 seven children, of whom six are known. One of these is an epileptic at 

 State Village and all of the others are feeble-minded. After the father^s 

 death the mother had an illegitimate child who died in infancy and she is 

 now married to a feeble-minded and alcoholic man who is the younger 

 brother of her daughter's feeble-minded husband. Case 3031. 



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Fig. 9. Both parents are feeble-minded. Of their children ten were 

 born alive. One is only three years old ; one died at five years. All of the 

 other eight are defective — two epileptic and six feeble-minded, including 

 one confirmed runaway. This is a family of paupers living on the out- 

 skirts of the town in a barn to save rent. Case 3384. 



In sharp contrast to the foregoing is the result of mating of 

 one feeble-minded or epileptic parent with one who is " insane." 

 Our collection shows 3 such matings. In one (Fig. 10) the insan- 

 ity of the father (A) is probable. The father "is an intemper- 



