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with seven league boots. That dignilied monument, the 

 free school, is not the only evidence. There are normal 

 schools and universities, museums and research institu- 

 tions, public collections of books and public printing 

 of books in numbers sufficient to form libraries 

 by themselves. 



Is it realized just what this means — why social policy 

 has developed in precisely this manner? It is because 

 this is the mental line of least resistance, the order of 

 social reform needing the least foresight. The first efforts 

 were to clear up obvious filth, the accumulated debris of 

 human activity — the record of the past ; the step f oi^^ard 

 was an appreciation of the efficiency in production result- 

 ing from comfort and satisfaction in conditions of work — 

 the present; and then came the spread of educational 

 facilities — a preparation for work, an insurance on the 

 immediate future. 



But change, progress, reform, whatever one may call 

 it, ought not and will not stop here. The program of social 

 hygiene is not complete if there is failure to provide for a 

 future still more distant. And this is the real thought in 

 the minds of a few clear thinkers of Europe and America 

 whose names are connected with the spread of eugenic 

 policies. It was thought for the care of the coming gen- 

 eration that led Budin to establish the Infant Consulta- 

 tions and MilJc Depots in Paris, that led Miele to start his 

 School for Mothers in Ghent. It was thought for the 

 future of the race as a whole that gave the impulse to 

 Galton's work. 



We have no eugenic system of conduct to lay down 

 here, for we believe the acquisition and diffusion of knowl- 

 edge are needed more than widespread dogma and ill- 



