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lar causes are seen in the decline of royalty and nobility 
of Europe as well as the degradation of European 
cretins and thieves. There is no development without 
activity, and no race is so perfect that judicious weed- 
ing out could not improve it. 
What can be done to remedy this source of evil? 
To know the evil is to go half way toward its cure. 
Penal reform, charities reform, civil-service reform, the 
prohibition of pauper immigration, education in social 
science—all these look in the direction of cure. In 
knowledge lies the surest remedy for most social and 
political evils. Let us see our enemy 
Taking away face to face and we can strike him. 
acts aa What more can be done is the work of 
thraldom to sin.” Students of social science to determine. 
Dr. Amos G. Warner has well said that 
the “true function of charity is to restore to usefulness 
those who are temporarily unfit, and to allow those un- 
fit from heredity to become extinct with as little pain 
as possible.’’ Sooner or later the last duty will not be 
less important and pressing than the first. Good blood 
as well as free schools and free environment is essential 
to the making of a nation. 
