[page number] -6- [end page number] "blood will tell" than in this record of a noble family lineage marred on the one hand by union with a defective strain, and on the other carried forward in all its splendid vigor by union with good stock. Consider another story well known to all eugenists. Nearly three hundred years ago Richard Edwards, a great lawyer, wedded Elizabeth Tuthill, a girl of wonderful endowments. They had one son and four daughters who have left a remarkable impress upon American life. Later in life Richard Edwards married an ordinary woman. Their children were ordinary, commonplace. The fine heredity of Richard Edwards was completely submerged by this union. But from the first marriage has come a line that has included some of the most eminent men in American history, beginning with Timothy Edwards, one of the founders of Yale University, and the father of Jonathan Edwards. The latter married a great woman, Sarah Pierpont, among whose descendants have been twelve college presidents, two hundred and ninety-five college graduates, sixty-five college professors, one hundred clergymen, one hundred lawyers, seventy-five army officers, sixty doctors, eighty public officers, sixty prominent authors, and thirty judges. In this line were governors, mayors, congressmen, United States senators and a vice-president of the United States. What lessons may be learned by a comparison of this line with the degenerate descendants of Max Juke and Martin Kallikak! [numbered point] II [end numbered point] In view of these facts, and others which there is not time to outline here, what does the eugenist propose? He sees that at least three fourths of all the sin and misery in the world is due to the single fact that the wrong people got married, and therefore declares that only the fit should be allowed to mate. He insists