BRE3EDING BETTER MEN 7 



I realize that I throw myself open to 

 criticism. Only the vital importance of 

 the subject to the permanency or ruin of 

 our American institutions givf s me cour- 

 age to express these views, for I have 

 avoided even reading books on heredity or 

 breeding, except as I now look up refer- 

 ences. I have never so much as opened 

 Mendel's Essay, "Investigations into the 

 Hybrids of Peas. ' ' I determined to search 

 out the truth of heredity, unbiased by other 

 views. 



My sole object is to lead my countrymen 

 to a v ision of the need of breedjn gjbjstter 

 men and better women, each superior 

 mentally and physically, free from hered- 

 itary ills and defects, which make life a 

 burden. Let us breed men and women 

 especially fitted by their mental and 

 physical qualities to best fill the stations in 

 life which they are to occupy. Let us all see 

 that this problem of eugenics, which means 

 "well-born," is given the public and pri- 

 vate thought and attention it justly de- 

 serves. For it means the elimination of 

 sufferings from hereditary ills and the sav- 



