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tendered that parental drunkenness does not injuriously affect the 

 germs. Germinal changes are transmissible to remote descend- 

 ants. If alcohol injuriously affected the germs, the effects would 

 accumulate generation after generation till the race became 

 extinct ; no instance of such racial deterioration is discoverable. 



Paragraph VIII. is true by itself, but false when taken with 

 the context. Read with the context, it implies that resolute men 

 with a desire for alcohol use, as a rule, their will power to 

 control, not to gratify, their desires. The question is begged. 

 The opening lines of the next paragraph absolutely contradict 

 the statement. 



Paragraph XIII. is intended to tone down paragraph XII. 

 Partly true when taken by itself, it is quite untrue when taken 

 with the context. Moreover, the terms in which it is couched 

 are deplorably lacking in scientific precision. No evidence was 

 tendered to the Committee in support of any of its contentions. 

 A question is begged in every line of it. The kinds of tempera- 

 ments which render races sober, or the reverse, are not specified, 

 nor are the races affected by them indicated. It is evidently 

 assumed that the effects of temperament increase the contrast 

 between the sober and the drunken races, but no proof was 

 offered. What is meant by "ideals of enjoyment," and what 

 their effects on the different races are supposed to be, is left to 

 the imagination. As a fact, the main thesis of the Report is that 

 races differ with respect to their capacities for enjoying alcoholic 

 indulgence. Thus, North Europeans are so constituted that they 

 enjoy intemperance more than South Europeans. Of necessity 

 their temperament and ideals of enjoyment are thereby rendered 

 different. So much is clear; but something more than this is 

 hinted at in the passage under consideration — hinted at, but not 

 clearly specified. 



Again, no evidence was produced that the kind of intoxicant 

 used makes any difference in the sobriety of the race. It is 

 plainly intended to hint that the more dilute solutions make for 

 sobriety. But savages who are unable to manufacture alcohol, 

 or can manufacture it in very dilute solutions only, are extremely 



