INHERITANCE OF HUMAN CHARACTERS 4605 
country, even if no more drastic action is taken. Otherwise the group 
is bound to be an increasing burden on the community, adding con- 
stantly to the tax needed for their 
support. ‘ie 
Investigations of competent none 
officials in the employ of insane hos- > ‘ q 
pitals have accumulated a mass of Fic. 100.—(r) Ignorant, “queer”; 
evidence demonstrating the herit- (2) Insane, was in sanitarium, com- 
“1: mitted suicide; (3) eccentric, violent 
ability of many forms of nervous temper, ideas of persecution against 
diseases which most commonly neighbors; (4) eccentric, not well bal- 
behave as recessives. Rosanoff and ee (5) alcoholic, lazy, eciai 
: : ementia praecox, paranoid, in 
Orr," in os study of 206 matings state hospital; (7) violent temper, 
between individuals from more or queer, extreme dolichocephaly; (8) 
less insane stock, found 1,097 oe ae “Vfom Boe (9) 
3 : * inferior, ‘“‘slow.” rom Downing, 
children, 146 of whom died I stir Rosanoft und Orr.) 
childhood. There were 351 afflicted 
offspring to 586 normal. The theoretical expectations, knowing with 
more or less certainty the character of the parents, were 359 to 
578. There are presented (Figs. 100, 101) two typical family pedi- 
grees. In the first an insane man was twice married, each time to an 
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Fic. 101.—(r1) epileptic; (2) insane for a time, recovered; (3) epileptic, imbecile; 
(4) imbecile; (5) melancholy in early married life, recovered; (6) insane five 
years, was in state hospital, recovered; (7) insomnia, neuralgia; (8) daughter had 
spells of excitement; (9) feeble-minded; (10) dementia praecox, katatonic, in 
state hospital; (11) died of marasmus, had one convulsion. (From Downing, 
after Rosanoff and Orr.) 
eccentric woman, undoubtedly mildly insane. All the offspring were 
unbalanced. In the second case, those distinctly neurotic are indi- 
cated in solid color; those having a neurotic element in the germ 
material are shaded. It might seem as if insane individuals would 
scarcely add materially to the general population, since they are com- 
monly in asylums. Often, however, the inherited insanity does not 
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