RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT 883 
Education i ib eugenically of value as making possible the devélop- 
Es 
fy 
ment of a ‘‘eugenic conscience”? which is now sadly lacking in 
most people of culture. It is a hopeful sign that here and there 
among people who have inherited a generous measure of desitabte 
traits eugenic considerations have led to the rearing of larger 
families. On the other hand, many who are aware that. they 
carry a hereditary taint refrain from transmitting a possible 
affliction to their posterity. With a higher standard of education 
and a diffusion of the sense of obligation to transmit (socially 
valuable qualities conditions might conceivably be chadged:'sd 
that a greater relative fecundity would come to characterize, the 
more vigorous, intelligent and public-spirited members, “of,,the 
community. Those who have been most fortunate in thé poser 
sion of hereditary gifts should feel that upon them rests!an’ 
usual obligation to see that their qualities are not allowed to 
perish from the earth. The race has its fate in its own hands to 
make or to mar. Will it ever take itself in hand and shdpe its 
roe tings id 
own destiny? Leh 
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