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those produced the usual way. We have 

 proved here that what is true of the horse 

 is equally true of the human. 



When the women of this country become 

 educated in eugenics, they will not risk 

 their lives nor their health to marry or have 

 children by an ill-bred, diseased, or booze- 

 loving husband. They also will realize the 

 crime they will be committing to the un- 

 born. They will be warned beforehand 

 of the punishment they and their children 

 will receive, if they take such a foolish 

 step. 



Then, what an incentive it will be for 

 OTir young men and women to endeavor to 

 insure in every way to their children well- 

 balanced ancestral pedigrees, free from 

 hereditary ills and bad inclinations, — and 

 when the young are educated, the $3,200,- 

 000,000 now yearly spent in the United 

 States on alcohol and tobacco, and the ad- 

 ditional sums yearly spent on carousing, 

 will all be spent on breeding offspring — 

 worth-while. 



The day will not be far off when the 

 boy of twelve years of age will have the 



