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sive people, and it is to each of these I now 

 appeal. 



I ask, why should not men be thus exam- 

 ined and graded? Are humans of less ac- 

 count than beasts? Our young women to- 

 day are to a great extent graded by the size 

 of their fortunes. Under the table of one of 

 our richest families, after dinner, there was 

 picked from the floor a card of a well- 

 known society man and on the back of it 

 was the name of each girl at the table, with 

 her value, in dollars. The young man 

 needed the money and won his prize and 

 the young lady lost her name and her hap- 

 piness. Now, it is only fair to the young 

 women that young men who are candidates 

 for matrimony should be able to furnish a 

 certificate from a Eecord Office that their 

 pedigrees are free from hereditary ail- 

 ment; and, from an expert, that they are 

 sound, normal, and have the number and 

 kind of germ cells which are necessary to 

 produce intelligent, healthy and talented 

 children, and they be graded, accordingly, 

 in what class each stands — according to 

 his worth as a sire in the A, B, C, D, E, 



