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cruelty, and other vicious principles in human nature remain the com- 

 mon inheritance of the race. The little attention yet given to eugenics 

 by the vast majority will evidently postpone to a very remote future the 

 day when all the wolfish propensities shall disappear from mankind, 

 and until that day dawns it would appear to be the part of wisdom and 

 the only path to progress to preserve inviolate the sanctity of private 

 property, the keystone on which all present civilization rests. 



