56 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



proof of this, I wrote an article, some ten 

 years ago, predicting that a colt would soon 

 be produced, which at the age of two would 

 have the intelligence, physical development 

 and stamina of a horse of six or seven ; and 

 I had the good fortune to produce that colt 

 in "Peter Volo," who took a record of 

 2:041/2 at two years of age and 2:03% at 

 three years, and 2:02 at four. From 

 his breeding and from our microscopic 

 examination of his germs, he can not but 

 be a great sire of early and extreme speed. 



DEFECTIVES, LIKE UNFIT ANI- 

 MALS, SHOULD BE STEEILIZED. 



In b reeding horse s, we render impotent 

 t he unfit. We never try to render fit a sire 

 by education. We have no sa nitar iums for 

 weak ho£ses, to keep them alive at public 

 expense, and then turn them loose to repro- 

 duce their unfitness, to refill more homes 

 for defectives. The same rule should apply 

 to humans. Go to Randalls ' Island with me, 

 and see there 2,000 defectives — some with 

 heads not bigger than your fist, two or 

 three from the same family and others with 



