DEGENERATION. 285. 
of Aosta has been developed as a new species of man. 
In fair weather the roads about the city are lined with 
these awful paupers—human beings with less intelli- 
gence than the goose, with less decency than the pig. 
‘ 
Fic. 27.—A eretin of Aosta. (From a photograph by Dr. J. W. Jenks.) 
The asylum for cretims in Aosta is a veritable chamber 
of horrors. The sharp words of Whymper are fully jus- 
tified : 
“A large proportion of the creéins who will be born 
in the next generation will undoubtedly be offsprings of 
