. Who is insane? . ne B. Davis, oneof the most advanced students of sociology, fur-nished the detailed scheme of research and gen-eral administration. We must add that in this action of the Bed-ford Reformatory we recognize the inspirationof the spirit of aggressive reform, the indom-itable will in combating social evils, the untir-ing zeal in efforts to uplift the fallen, whichcharacterized the long and eventful life of its il-lustrious founder, Abby Hopper Gibbons. Atthe age of ninety-two she visited the Committeeof the Legislature which had the bill creating 280 WHO IS INSANE? the Reformato
. Who is insane? . ne B. Davis, oneof the most advanced students of sociology, fur-nished the detailed scheme of research and gen-eral administration. We must add that in this action of the Bed-ford Reformatory we recognize the inspirationof the spirit of aggressive reform, the indom-itable will in combating social evils, the untir-ing zeal in efforts to uplift the fallen, whichcharacterized the long and eventful life of its il-lustrious founder, Abby Hopper Gibbons. Atthe age of ninety-two she visited the Committeeof the Legislature which had the bill creating 280 WHO IS INSANE? the Reformatory under discussion and the sub-stance of her remarks was as follows: A Re-formatory pure and simple is my aim. Theword Prison may keep in the are made what they are by associa-tion and treatment. Let us turn over a new leafand remember that they are human; and that,with tact and experience, it is possible to tem-per the wind to the shorn lamb and soften theheart of the hardest. XXIV Eugenics I. XXIV Eugenics lUGENICS opens a field in altru-ism of infinite possibilities inthe prevention of public de-pendency. Galton says: Itsfirst object is to check the birthrate of the unfit, instead of al-lowing them to come into being,though doomed in large numbers to perish pre-maturely; the second object is the improvementof the race by furthering the pro-Objects of ductivity of the fit by early mar-Eugenics riages and healthful rearing oftheir children. It aims to re-place natural selection by other processes thatare more merciful and not less effective. Nat-ural selection rests upon excessive productionand wholesale destruction; eugenics on bringingno more individuals into the world than can beproperly cared for and those only of the beststock. But Eugenics is in its experimental stage. Itsmethod of preventing the increase of the unfit, 283 284 WHO IS INSANE? by sterilizing or unsexing those who might be-get them, would certainly effect its object ifrigorously enforc
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