238 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



you will generally find they are physically 

 defective. 



The lack of life force in the developing 

 chick is due to the sexual weakness of 

 the male bird. One of his defective life 

 germ centers at the time of mating has 

 floated over and joined one of the centers 

 of the female, thus producing a defective 

 chick. Prospective healthy mothers find 

 themselves often trying to bring to the 

 hour of birth a new life too weak for the 

 ravages of this old world, because the father 

 of the child had wasted his vigor in riotous 

 living and his seed was diseased or too 

 weak or there were hereditary defects in 

 his life germs which produced offspring 

 that were physically and mentally irregu- 

 lar. "Would a girl marry a used up man, or 

 one whose germs of life to her mating were 

 likely to produce club-footed, crooked- 

 spined, lop-sided or mentally defective off- 

 spring if her eyes were opened to the mis- 

 ery sure to follow? A lady who had given 

 birth to five children, four of whom were 

 either club-footed, crooked-spined or had 

 other physical or mental imperfections, at 



