Eugenics As a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease
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If we are to improve the race by better marriages, genealogical or eugenic bureaus must be established in cities and villages. Data concerning family stocks should show the defects as well as the excellencies and achievements of the individuals recorded and be available to interested parties. Love is proverbially blind, but few normal persons would 6 THE PKEVENTION OF MENTAL DISEASE be rash enough knowingly to join fortunes with a neuro- pathic or degenerate family stock. Unfortunately very lit...tle thought is now given to the eugenic significance of marriage and few signs warn impetuous youth of the danger ahead. Eugenic bureaus, by collecting data concerning family his- tories and by emphasizing the importance of family stock, would naturally promote marriages among persons of good stock and thereby increase procreation of a desirable kind. The increase of good stock would raise the general level of the race, even if there were no decrease of poor stock, but we may safely assume that more definite knowledge would gradually lessen reproduction among the unfit.
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