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increases. Then, at any rate, parents would be less tempted to leave as 

 much as possible to a few children. 



34. The state should give every gifted child every possible opportunity to de- 

 velop its talents and should prevent Us being hampered by financial or other 

 difficulties. 



Gifted children of less well-to-do parents should be aided by the State by 

 means of scholarships to a much larger extent than has been the case hither- 

 to, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Money thus employed is never 

 wasted but will be bountifully repaid. Although the number of the gifted 

 is not large proportionately in the less well-to-do classes, the absolute num- 

 ber will nevertheless be very high because the class itself is so large. Quite 

 a considerable number of gifted children will, therefore, be able to develop 

 their talents and will very certainly contribute in a marked degree to the 

 nation's prosperity. 



SUMMARY 



In the preceding pages I have outlined several measures by which the 

 fertility of the gifted could be encouraged. If I do not consider them all 

 equally important and if I doubt whether some of them are really practicable 

 I am nevertheless convinced that every means at our disposal should be 

 made use of to achieve our aim. I do not cherish the hope that the measures 

 I have proposed will or can all be put into immediate operation, but they 

 do include a few for which the time is now ripe. It is possible to make the 

 essence and aim of eugenics known by means of a propaganda on a large 

 scale; literature, lectures, the stage, the pictures, broadcasting can all be 

 pressed into the service of eugenic reform. It is possible to urge upon the 

 governments the necessity of giving tuition in eugenics and genetics of mak- 

 ing the study of both compulsory in the training institutes which come into 

 consideration for this object. It is possible to secure here and now the co- 

 operation of the Church. It is possible to accelerate the education of gifted 

 children. It is possible to convince the governments of the necessity of re- 

 forming the system of taxation in the interest of eugenic principles, without 

 increasing thereby the State's financial burden. All these measures can now 

 be put to the test. It goes without saying that they cannot be confined to 

 only one country. The international Eugenics Society must be the control- 

 ling spirit and frame our policy. It will then be for the national societies 

 to carry out this policy adapting it to the conditions obtaining in the several 

 countries. 



In addition, scientific research work must be carried on energetically. I 

 consider an international institute absolutely essential to a really satisfac- 



