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In this way much of the best germplasm is very often withheld from circulation until it is too late to be eflFective in providing for the succeeding generation. Certain occupations such as school-teaching and nursing by women are filled by the best blood ob- tainable, yet this blood is denied a direct part in molding posterity, since marriage is either forbidden or regarded as a serious handicap in such lines of work. Advertisements concerning "unincumbered help" and "childless apartments" tell... their own deplorable tale. Digitized by Google 860 GENETICS One of the darkest features of the dark ages from a eugenic standpoint was the enforced celibacy of the priesthood, since this resulted, as a rule, in with- drawing into monasteries and nunneries much of the best blood of the times, and this uneugenic cus- tom still obtains in many quarters to-day. 6. Who shall sit in Judgment? In the practical application of a program of eu- genics there are many difficulties, for who is quali- fied to sit in judgment and separate the fit from the unfit?
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