[page number] 7. [end page number] type of artistic production having low intellectual content and high emotional appeal should be in great demand. Our ignorance on the subject of heredity has blinded us to the momentous issues involved. We have commonly imagined that the progress of education would affect the amelioration of the racial stock. But the fact is that long before a child is born the germ plasm which he will transmit and which will determine the heredity of his offspring has been set aside in little glands and can in no way be affected, except by gross chemical disturbances of the blood, as in alcholic [sic] poisoning, or the penetration of disease germs within these reproductive glands themselves. We may cut off our hands or put out our eyes, but our children will not be affected. We may study hard and think high thoughts, but our children will receive just the inheritance that we received from our parents, subject of course to the shuffling, of each generation, and the chance combinations of mating. The flippant may ask, "What responsibility have we for our neighbors' children?" But those who have apprehended the spirit of religion will reply, "we are one body in Christ Jesus. "And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored all the members rejoice with it." There is a sickness in our body, a faintness and a spread of disease. And we shall seek healing, redemption and salvation, till we behold the coming of the Community of God and its peace.