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180 into play mental capacity, exhibited through knowledge and skill. A little man with a six-shooter became superior to the giant with only his fists. A great brain in a weak body may survive in the contests of modern civilization where many strong bodies with little brains die. In our pity and sentimentality, which are emotions that it is painful to decry, we aim constantly to protect the weak, whether weak mentally or physically. There is m this, perhaps, considerable thought of protection of the strong against the harm that the weak may do. But let us consider what results are produced and whither they lead.

“America is rushing madly on to race suicide because of the destructive influence of the melting pot,” said Dr. George B. Cutten, in another recent address. “The great fallacy of the melting pot was that we thought environment played so much larger part in life than heredity and if we could only get people here and surround them with proper environment—it mattered not who they were—they would become intellectual, cultured and moral according to our standards. Experience has proved the falsity of such a supposition. In these days mistaken ideas of altruism, philanthrophy and sentimentalism have interfered with nature’s penalizing the victims of reckless breeding. Persons who know that children brought into the world will have difficulty in getting along do not give that a thought. Not only philanthropy, but modern medicine is deteriorating the stock, for by this means inferior stock is kept alive.”

Albert Edward Wiggam in “An Open Letter from the Biologist to the Statesman” in the Century for March, 1922, offered the admonishment of the biologist,