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wife (gen. 3) was the legitimate daughter of Bell, a prostitute. 

 Going back and following up from the father in generation 4, we 

 find his father the illegitimate son of Bell. 



Parallel to this we lay the story of the environment. The 

 mother of this child in the seventh generation is the daughter of a 

 prostitute, who kept a brothel when that daughter was only ten 

 years old. It is stated by one of the poor-masters that, upon one 

 occasion, the daughter applied to him for out-door relief to main- 

 tain the above child. She made a charge of bastardy against a 

 certain man, whom the poor-master was called upon, in virtue of his 

 office, to prosecute for the maintenance of the child. The case 

 was lost, and after the trial was over in the magistrate's office, the 

 male witnesses adjourned to a neighboring bar-room where, for a 

 few dollars, the mother caused her daughter to retract the story 

 publicly. Going back to the fourth generation, the testimony as 

 to environment is not so complete, only that the father was disso- 

 lute, and that the example of the other sisters no doubt had an in- 

 fluence in blunting the sense of purity, while, in the two generations 

 farther back, the testimony is not sufficiently definite for the pur- 

 poses of the present argument. 



Here, again, environment is in the line of heredity. 



Case 5. The most striking case of all is line 23, chart L, for in 

 it we find bastardy in every link but one. In generation 7 is 

 found an illegitimate girl six years old, whose mother {gQ.xi. 6) was 

 an illegitimate prostitute, whose mother (gen. 5) was a harlot, whose 

 mother (gen, 4) was illegitimate, married to a husband (gen. 4) 

 whose father (gen. 5) was illegitimate, whose mother was Ada, a 

 harlot. 



The environment in this case stands thus : The child is the 

 offspring of an incestuous relation between her mother when only 

 fourteen, with her own uncle, who had served two terms in State 

 prison, thus showing the influence of her surroundings. The 

 mother (gen. 5) kept a brothel, and it was no doubt within its 

 atmosphere that the girl was contaminated. Going back to genera- 

 tion 4 we find the parents keep a low dram-shop, which also serves 

 on occasion as a house of assignation. As in the other cases there 

 is no environment traced beyond. 



