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five feet sixinches. Neither the man nor the woman should have dark 
hair. Its tint may range from blonde to auburn. The eyes of the 
pair should be pure blue without any tint of brown. The complexion 
should be fair to ruddy without any suggestion of heaviness or ‘beefi- 
ness.’ The nose ought to be strong and narrow, the chin square and 
powerful, and the skull well developed at the back. The man and the 
woman must be of German descent and must bear a German name and 
speak the language of Germany. These ‘mated couples’ are to get 
a wedding gift of $125 and an additional grant for each child born. 
The couples may settle in the United States if they prefer.” This 
reported attempt to establish a Prussian type of ‘‘ Hauser blondes” at 
least points the way to one sort of a positive eugenic method that 
might possibly be employed with respect to certain physical charac- 
teristics. 
It should be remembered, however, that the eugenic ideal is not 
by any means confined to physical traits alone. 
b) BY ENLARGING INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY 
Much good human germplasm goes to waste through ineffective- 
ness on account of unfavorable environment or lack of a suitable 
opportunity to develop. 
Every agency which contributes toward increasing the opportunity 
of the individual to attain to a better development of his latent 
possibilities is in harmony with a thoroughly positive eugenic practice. 
Thus better schools, better homes, better living conditions, in short, 
all euthenic endeavor, directly serves the eugenic ideal by making the 
best out of whatever germinal equipment is present in man. 
c) BY PREVENTING GERMINAL WASTE 
Much good protoplasm fails to find expression in the form of off- 
spring because one or the other of possible parents is cut off either by 
preventable death or by social hindrances. To avoid such calamities 
is a part of the positive program of eugenics. 
1. Preventable death.—War, from the eugenic point of view, is the 
height of folly, since presumably the brave and the physically fit 
march away to fight, while in general the unqualified stay at home to 
reproduce the next generation. When a soldier dies on the battlefield 
or in the hospital, it is not alone a brave man who is cut off, but it is 
the termination of a probably desirable strain of germplasm. The 
Thirty Years’ War in Germany cost 6,000,000 lives, while Napoleon 
in his campaigns drained the best blood. of. France. 
