THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE I7 



five are defective. III. 6, male, mentally defective. 

 III. 7, male, alcoholic maniac. IV. 1-6, family of IV. 

 4 and 5, maternal first cousins, nothing being said to the 

 discredit of their own mental state. IV. i, male, dead, 

 shrunken congenital cataract, nystagmus, and hydro- 

 cephalus. IV. 2, female, squints. IV. 3, male, one of 

 twins, cataract and hydrocephalus. IV. 4, female, other 

 of twins, fairly normal. IV. 5, female, died aet. three of 

 tubercular meningitis. IV. 6, male, cataract and hydro- 

 cephalus. See Plate I, Fig. in. 



Again, we note twenty abnormals in four generations, 

 the product of two degenerates whose right to reproduce 

 their kind should have been challenged by society from 

 the start, as it would have been refused a priori by nature. 



In my next pedigree ^ we have a single blind man 

 leading in four generations to fifteen blind descendants : — 



Form of cataract not stated. I. i, male, blind from 

 congenital cataract, had four blind and some not blind 

 children. II. 1-5, offspring of blind father. II. i, 2, and 

 3, males. II. 4, sex not stated, blind from some kind of 

 cataract. II. 5, not blind, sex and number not stated. 

 III. 1-4, familv of seven of affected father ; sex not 

 stated, three blind of same cataract, four not affected. 

 III. 5 and 6, issue of affected father, both have cataract, 

 sex not stated. III. 7-12, issue of affected father. III. 7, 

 male. III. 9, sex not stated, affected. III. 10-12, three 

 others, sex not stated, unaffected. IV. 1-4, sibship of 

 four, due to affected father ; sex not stated ; three blind 

 with cataract and inmates of a blind asylum ; one not 

 affected. See Plate I, Fig. iv. 



Here is another pedigree obtained by Mr. Bishop Har- 

 man ^ illustrating a combination of degeneracies through 

 many generations : — 



I. I, died in an epileptic fit. II. i, died mad in an asylum. 

 II. 2, died mad in another asylum. II. 4 and 5 suffered 



^ A. D. Williams's case, Tveasttry of Human Inheritance, Fig. 329. 

 ^ Personally communicated and shortly to appear in the Treasury. 



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