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must be reached by well-ordered sanitary, hygienic and educational 

 measures. The following table gives a statement of facts, taking 

 care not to draw rash conclusions, most of those who are marked 

 healthy are not licentious. Of the three who were licentious before 

 intemperance, the following particulars : 



TABLE VIII. 

 Comparing temperance and intemperance. 



Case 2o. Take chart III., generation 3, line 4, and we have (4) 

 b. m. B. He was industrious in early life, accumulated property, 

 was of a tough, coarse-grained temperament, and in his youth licen- 

 tious. He is not known ever to have been a criminal, but he did 

 become a drunkard in middle life, lost his property, and died of 

 premature old age, at 69 receiving a town burial. 



In this case we find licentiousness in youth, drunkenness when 

 the meridian of life is passed, premature death. 



Case 21. Chart I., line 41, generation 5, we have a man, m. X, 

 who was licentious in his youth, who had contracted syphilis, and 

 who, on the decline of life, was a sot, and hastened his death by his 

 excesses in drink. The same general course as the last case, licen- 

 tiousness, intemperance, premature death. 



Case 22. Chart I., line 27, generation 5, a woman (5), 1. f. A. B. 

 X, who began prostitution at an early age ; at 25 was a drunkard. 

 She then joined the church ; shortly after, she married and left off 

 her licentious habits. She is now reported as being less given to 

 drunkenness then she was ten years ago. 



The law faintly shadowed forth by this scanty evidence is that 



