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of protection against the inclemency of the 

 weather ; but we shall not see those illnesses 

 disappear which are due to wounds, to 

 insanity, to pulmonary affections. 



We must say as much of crime. If misery 

 and the shocking inequalities of economic 

 conditions are suppressed, sharp and chronic 

 hunger will serve no longer as a stimulus to 

 crime ; better nourishment will bring about a 

 physical and moral amelioration ; the abuses 

 of power and riches will disappear, and we 

 shall see produced a considerable reduction of 

 crimes from want, chiefly caused by the social 

 environment. But what will not disappear 

 are outrages on chastity, through sexual path- 

 ological inversion, murders committed by 

 epileptics, robberies caused by psycho-patho- 

 logical degeneracy, etc. 



For the same reason popular instruction 

 will be more spread, all the talented men will 

 be able to develop themselves and to freely 

 assert themselves ; but that will not cause 

 idiocy and imbecility, owing to hereditary and 

 pathological conditions, to disappear. Differ- 

 ent causes, however, will be able to exert a 

 preventive and palliative influence on congen- 

 ital degeneracy (common diseases, crime, 

 madness, nervous affections). There will be, 

 for instance, a better economic and social 

 organisation, advice of increasing efficacy 

 given by experimental biology, and procrea- 

 tion becoming less and less frequent in case of 

 hereditary disease by voluntary abstention. 



In conclusion, we will say that even in the 



