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Rh eyes or skin; for long noses and flat feet; for immense buttocks, as the steatopygous Hottentot women; for flat heads; for a tail or the development of the caudal appendage beyond the general superficies of the body; for immense strength; for a complete covering of hair; for polydactylism ; for enormous genital organs; for curiously shaped ears, and the elimination of all the teeth; in other words, make pointed-eared, edentate, wonderfully hairy, short-tailed, long-nosed bimanous vertebrates of them, presenting many other curious characters. By crossing them in various ways with the anthropoid apes, numerous other remarkable species could be evolved. Mankind, as I have intimated above, may be similarly dealt with, with the view of producing diseased individuals, and this may be carried so far, in the case of some diseases, that the virulence of the latter will wipe out the stock, and thus bring the experiments to a close. Again, we may breed men and women to produce singers, musicians, artists, mathematicians, criminals, sexual perverts, liars, fiends and saints, intellectual giants or brainless dolts,— anything, and just as we like. All it requires is scientific stirpiculture, close attention and time. Throughout mankind at present no such attempt, so far as I am aware, is being made to improve either mentally or physically a sex or a race in the manner indicated. In the lower races nature is having some play in the matter, but by no means always for the best. In the white races it is even far worse, and little or no heed is paid to careful mating with the view of race improvement or even with regard to the elimination of diseases and deformities. Here the process is exceedingly slow, and in the