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parents are not actuated by such desires 

 and motives they lack filial affection and 

 patriotism. 



We now breed horses to go, at the age of 

 three years three, four and five or more 

 mile heats, in longVirawn-out grilling races, 

 at a gait of less than 2 :08 for all the heats. 

 "We do it by selection for gait, for speed, for 

 stamina, for intelligence, for soundness, 

 and for toughness. There is nothing to 

 prevent the 80 per cent, of rejected men 

 reproducing their kind. We seem to think 

 more of a horse, or a cow, or a hog, than of 

 a man. 



Years ago, I used to write, occasionally, 

 for a little sheet, called the "American 

 Baby." Dr. David Starr Jordan was a 

 regular contributor. It finally lost its pa- 

 tronage and failed, because it exposed to 

 the world the weaklings our American 

 mothers were producing. Mothers were 

 not inclined to take a practical view of the 

 situation and did not care to educate their 

 ■sons and daughters so as to avoid their par- 

 ents ' mistake in mating but were inclined 

 to tell others in confidence how each had 



