. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . others record. Out of these records, some accurate and some less so (as is the casewith the data on which the genealogist now bases his findings) there willbe built up family trees with eugenical value. A necessity is that such trees should record the bad as well as the must especially show the outcroppings of feeble-mindedness, insanity,epilepsy, drug addiction and certain types of criminality. Galton has shown that there is a tendency to return to mediocrity. Thechildren of a genius, of a man of great money-getting ability, of a statesman,exhibit tend
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . others record. Out of these records, some accurate and some less so (as is the casewith the data on which the genealogist now bases his findings) there willbe built up family trees with eugenical value. A necessity is that such trees should record the bad as well as the must especially show the outcroppings of feeble-mindedness, insanity,epilepsy, drug addiction and certain types of criminality. Galton has shown that there is a tendency to return to mediocrity. Thechildren of a genius, of a man of great money-getting ability, of a statesman,exhibit tendencies to return to average capacities and average accomplish-ments. The daring, the unconquerable courage that makes generals of financeand generals of war practically always gives way to safe and sane mediocrityin the succeeding generation. Why then deify courage in a family tree since everybody knows that itpeters out in the span of one life? Nobody is fooled. On the other hand Goddard has shown that feeble-mindedness 994
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