HUMAN LIFE 



But not all delinquency is due to feeble- 

 mindedness. In Williams' group of delin- 

 quent boys, 19% are rated as of average 

 normal intelligence and 3% of superior 

 intelligence. Altogether, in Dr. Williams' 

 judgment, about one-third of California 

 juvenile delinquency, which is a first step 

 toward confirmed adult criminality, is 

 due to hereditary mental deficiency, an- 

 other third to other undesirable inherited 

 traits and the final third to unfortunate 

 environmental conditions. There are, 

 then, two kinds of causes of juvenile 

 delinquency, and two kinds of remedies 

 are required to combat these causes; one a 

 remedy of better environment, the other a 

 remedy of being better born. Which is a 

 natural introduction to a few words on the 

 general subject of eugenics. 



Poor word eugenics, and such a good 

 word, too. But the comic papers and 

 comic stage and the sadly comic capers of 

 the all too serious cranks and all too un- 

 wise and too extreme would-be friends 

 have made this good word almost im- 

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