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Heredity and Eugenics 



cells, half of his progeny by a feeble-minded woman will be 

 defective. 



Epilepsy and feeble-mindedness may replace each other 

 (as equivalents) in pedigrees. This is well illustrated by 



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Fig. 91. — Pedigree of a family witii a tiigli proportion of feeble-minded per- 

 sons (Fj. Squares, males; circles, females; d. inf., died in infancy. — Goddard. 



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Fig. 92. — Pedigree of a family in which the feeble-minded grandmother 

 married twice; by a normal husband she had normal children; but by an alco- 

 holic, sex-offending (S.x), doubtless feeble-minded husband she had only feeble- 

 minded children. — Goddard. 



the figure (Fig. 93) in which a feeble-minded sex offender 

 has by an epileptic daughter two feeble-minded children 

 and one epileptic child. 



Many criminals, especially those who offend against the 

 person, are feeble-minded, as is shown by the way they 



