SEQUEL TO “THE JUKES ” 295 
ture,” there will be a multiplication of criminality, 
harlotry, and pauperism. It should be noted, if it 
is not too obvious, that the name Juke was fictitious, 
so that the publication of “ The Jukes ”’—of re- 
stricted circulation in any case—did not induce any 
Nemesis analogous to what follows giving a dog a 
bad name. But the chance discovery (in 1911) of 
Mr. Dugdale’s original manuscript has made it 
possible to recover the real names, and with these 
as clues, but still suppressed, Dr. Arthur H. Esta- 
brook has followed up, with all possible carefulness, 
the dismal story of the Jukes down to 1915. The 
reason for referring here to such a grim subject 
was expressed long ago by Huxley, when he said: 
“ There is no alleviation for the sufferings of man- 
kind except veracity of thought and of action, and 
the resolute facing of the world as it is.” 
In his preface to the sequel to “The Jukes,” 
Dr. C. B. Davenport, the indefatigable director of 
the Laboratory of Experimental Evolution at Cold 
Spring Harbor, gives a picture of the headquarters 
of the Jukes when their history as a strain began. 
“Into an isolated region, now within two hours’ 
railroad journey of the nation’s metropolis, there 
drifted nearly a century and a half ago a number 
of persons whose constitution did not fit them for 
participation in a highly-organized society.’’ There 
were, of course, various degrees of inadequacy; 
and the retired, well-wooded, and well-watered 
valley (one thinks of “ The Country of the Blind ”’) 
doubtless gave many of the immigrants a chance to 
