THE INHERITANCE OF FAMILY TRAITS 69 



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Fig. 34. — An alcoholic man of good family but probably simplex in men- 

 tality has by a normal woman 2 normal children and by a feeble-minded 

 woman 2 normals and 1 feeble-minded. He has had 4 other children by 

 feeble-minded women, all feeble-minded. Sxj sex-offender. Goddard, 1910. 



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Fig. 35. — This chart shows several cases of entirely feeble-minded progeny 

 from two defective parents. Goddard. 1910. 



has happened many times that keepers of poorhouses have 

 let feeble-minded women in their charge go to marry a half- 

 witted farmer in order to reheve the town of the bm'den of 

 maintaining her. Some years later both she and her hus- 

 band come to the poorhouse as permanent inhabitants and 



