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ity added to ability will make better the 

 generations as we move on. It is just as 

 necessary, on the other hand, to restrain 

 the worthless and the unfit from reproduc- 

 ing themselves as it is to mate worth with 

 its kind. 



The methods adopted by the breeders of 

 thoroughbred and trotting horses have, to 

 my mind, shown the methods to be followed 

 for the improvement of the human family. 

 Families of worth and ability must eon- 

 serve their greatness by marrying into 

 families of genius and strength. The ob- 

 ject of marriage should be the production 

 of worth-while children, children superior, 

 if possible, in mental and physical qualities 

 to their parents, and, some day, we will 

 breed the Super-man. Patience, Persever- 

 ance and Scientific Knowledge are all that 

 is needed. 



These 10-cent boys and 10-cent girls in 

 our land each cost, among the higher 

 classes, $10,000 to raise to maturity. They 

 need more brains, and, when given even 

 the rudiments of education that boys and 

 girls get that are above par, they fail and 



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