XIV HEREDITY AND SELECTION IN SOCIOLOGY- 



PA0E3 



to the consumption of alcoliol in the different countries of 

 Europe — Harmful effects of alcoholism — ^Influence of the 

 seasons on the rate of insanity in general, of aloohoUc insanity, 

 and of general paralysis— Remarks on the influence of seasons 

 on conduct - - - 257-287 



CHAPTER III 



Syphilis as a Social Factor 



Serious danger of syphilis for the individual — Syphilis is likewise 

 a social peril by reason of its hereditary and infectious nature 

 — Syphilis among married women — -Tertiary syphilitic accidents 

 manifest themselves many years after primary accident — 

 Danger resulting for society from this fact — Professor Tamowsky 

 on the hereditary dangers of syphilis — Professor Poumier on the 

 influence of syphilis on infantile mortality and on dystrophic 

 accidents — Urgent necessity of prophylactic education, with 

 a view to strengthening our social sentiments and awakening 

 us to a consciousness of our responsibilities towards our de- 

 scendants - - 288-308 



CHAPTER IV 

 Social Selection and Inverse Selection 



1. Biological and traditional progress — Biological superiority in a 



race is not necessarily synonymous with traditional (social) 

 superiority — ^Necessity for society to cultivate at the same 

 time both biological and traditional progress — ^The action of 

 war among primitive peoples — ^War, with its accompanying 

 militarism, is an instrument of counter -selection among European 

 nations to-day — Obstacles to marriage and reproduction among 

 the fittest social elements— Wholesale destruction of these ele- 

 ments by war during the nineteenth century — Inferior position 

 of the European States with regard to the United States of 

 America. 



2. Eertaity of the various social classes — Lesser fertility of the 



upper classes — The relation of age to the degree of fertility 

 — Average age of marriage in the different professions. 



3. General tendency of social evolution to-day — Deplorable results 



of mistaken altruism — Artificial prolongation of juvenile at the 

 expense of adult life — Unfortunate consequences of this artificial 

 preservation of sickly and weak persons — Summary - . 309-352 



