THE EIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



or 



HORSE BREEDINa IN ITS RELATION 



TO EUGENICS. 



PREFACE. 



To the patriotic young men and women 

 of our country, who contemplate marriage, 

 and to the research workers in the field of 

 eugenics, these few lines on heredity are 

 dedicated by a horse breeder, whose ex- 

 periences have taught him to realize that 

 the rights of our unborn children are not 

 fairly or honestly protected. Every un- 

 born child has an inalienable right to come 

 into the world free from disease, from 

 hereditary ailments and from mental and 

 physical defects. The Almighty never in- 

 tended that any one man or woman should 

 have all the attainments and all the graces, 

 but that each child should have the right 

 kind of inherent mental and physical abili- 

 ties, which, if properly cultivated, would 

 permit him or her to well fill the station 

 in life to which each is destined. 

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