LECTURE XXX. 

 DEGENERATION IN MAN. 



Possible to breed human sacculina by same meth- 

 ods ; shelter from destruction, remove incentive to 

 individual action, and allow unfitness to mate with 

 unfitness. 



Cretinism in Valley of Aosta. Elements. Military 

 selection ; heredity susceptibility to goitre ; influence 

 of indiscriminate charity whereby the worst fares bet- 

 ter than the best. 



Pauperism. Analogy to sacculina. Its existence de- 

 pendent on getting something for nothing. The Lord's 

 poor, the devil's poor, and paupers. 



Dr. Dugdale's studies of the Jukes family. " Mar- 

 garet, the mother of criminals." Hereditary para- 

 sitism. 



McCulloch's studies of the " Tribe of Ishmael." 

 Paupers of California, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas derived from 

 England's stock, and kept alive by public and "pri- 

 vate outdoor relief." Origin of Georgia " poor-white 

 trash." 



Pauperism can be exterminated, as swamps are 

 drained ; not by giving, but by removal of causes. 

 Remedies : Destruction of the slums and their social 

 gangrene ; closing outdoor relief ; checking feeding 

 of vagabonds, and indiscriminate giving ; saving the 



