[page number] -5- [end page number] cited here. These family histories show that dominant traits, either for good or evil, flow like a stream through the family line. Nearly two hundred years ago Max Juke, a shiftless new England vagabond, took to himself a wife, as any vagabond may. Patient investigators have traced twelve hundred and twenty of Juke's descendants and the record is as follows: three hundred died in infancy; three hundred and ten were professional paupers; four hundred and forty were wrecked by disease; fifty were prostitutes; sixty were thieves; seven were murderers; fifty-three were criminals of various kinds. Not one of them ever graduated from college; not one of them ever amounted to anything worth while. Some of them moved West to a new and invigorating environment, but these proved no better than the rest. The tarnished strain that came out of the loins of this worthless degenerate has marched grimly on, unimproved, unchanged. Another strikingly significant record is that of Martin Kallikak, a young soldier of the Revolutionary War with good blood in his veins. One night in his cups he met a feeble-minded girl, and the result of that meeting was a feeble-minded boy. This boy grew up, married a woman of his own class, and four hundred and eighty-six of his descendants have been traced. Only forty-six of these were anywhere near normal. The others were feeble-minded, criminal, sex-perverts. Now this same Kallikak later on married a young woman of fine family, and from this union there have been four hundred and ninety-six known descendants. Among these not one criminal, feeble-minded, or degenerate has been found. Instead, this line has been adorned by men of high character and ability -- lawyers, doctors, educators, prosperous Business men. Nowhere may be found a better example of the fact that