58 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



US. Instead of this they neglect their duty, 

 to put it mildly. 



The army of field workers sent out by the 

 Eugenics Record Office has traced and tab- 

 ulated pedigrees of enough human defec- 

 tives to prove that defectives come from 

 defective parents. Insane parents produce 

 children who are subject to the same afflic- 

 tion. Weak-minded men and women beget 

 children of the same kind. Erratic ner- 

 vous temperaments also are transmitted. 

 Sex offenders and criminals, in large meas- 

 ure, transmit the lack of self-control, which 

 results in anti-social acts. The remarkable 

 results obtained by the Eugenics Eecord 

 Office have convinced the scientist of the 

 correctness of the foregoing statements. 

 Their field workers have quietly traced 

 from court, asylum, cemetery, etc., records 

 and other sources, the cause of the death 

 and the weak points of 10,000 families for 

 100 years back. Undertakers, doctors, 

 cemetery books, etc., are secured, and these 

 records tell a story of goodness or rotten- 

 ness; of what diseases or family failings 

 are to be out-crossed by proper mating. 



