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added to the mare's tendencies to tumors, 

 produced a colt with a tumor. This illus- 

 trates my point, and also shows — that, by 

 judicious selection in mating, ailments and 

 defects can be bred out, and thus elimi- 

 nated. 



The general public does not know of the 

 work of the Eugenics Eecord Office to aid 

 the public to avoid such errors in mating 

 and is ignorant of the bearing of certain 

 infallible laws of nature upon the problem 

 of heredity. What their field workers do not 

 uncover in the past history of any family 

 under investigation is not discoverable. I 

 claim that today this great nation of ours is 

 rushing on to decay and degeneracy with 

 the speed of a Twentieth Century Limited, 

 and that our young men and women must 

 open their eyes and take means to stop it, if 

 they have an atom of American patriotism 

 in their veins. 



THE NUMBER AND COST OF 

 DEFECTIVES. 



If the following statistical summary of 

 Public State Institutions for the Socially 



