252 THE EIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



CONCLUSION. 



The Eugenic Bureau at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, is today being pri- 

 vately consulted by various people in the 

 East, and the time is not far distant when 

 every great city in the United States will 

 have its Eugenic Bureau; when laws will 

 be passed that doctors will have to enter 

 in the Bureaus of Public Eecord the dis- 

 eases, ailments, mental and physical defects 

 that are hereditary, of every family, just 

 as they do in Germany and France. 



We know the good and defective charac- 

 teristics in the horse, dairy, poultry, pig 

 and other families of domestic animals. We 

 have seen what such information has done 

 to improve these breeds. Then, why should 

 not like information be recorded as to the 

 human family, so that the present and fu- 

 ture generations may take advantage of it, 

 to make our human family the best bred 

 instead of the worst? 



We employ paid legal and medical ad- 

 visers, paid consulting and mining engi- 

 neers, in fact, no intelligent man, nowadays, 

 undertakes any great step in life without 



