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and it is estimated they have cost society 

 and the State $2,000,000 or more, and are 

 still producing feeble-minded or defective 

 offspring. (See Dr. Esterbrook's report.) 

 They cost Indiana, alone, over $1,000,000. 



Let me contrast with you the family of 

 Eichard Edwards, a Connecticut lawyer, 

 descended from a Puritan family, who, in 

 1667, married for his first wife, Elizabeth 

 Tuttle, born of a family of physical and 

 mental superiority and with a good healthy 

 ancestry, evidently born with the high-bred 

 female organism of Combination II. 

 Among their descendants were 300 college 

 graduates, 14 college presidents, 100 college 

 professors, 30 judges, 60 physicians, 100 

 clergymen, missionaries and theological 

 professors; 65 authors of 135 books; ed- 

 itors, lawyers, politicians and leaders of in- 

 dustry and owners of factories. 



Afterwards, Eichard Edwards married 

 Mary Talcott, of a family of very mediocre 

 ability. She had a pretty face and nice 

 figure, but little talent and no decision of 

 character; she aged quickly and became 



