The Importance of the Eugenic Movement and Its Relation to Social Hygiene

"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies They fall successive and successive rise." If it be true that the whole human race gets a fresh start at least thrice every hundred years; that the kind of race in existence in any period depends on the quality of the children born and the influences to which they are exposed after birth; that the supreme reason for marriage is parenthood; that the quality of children born depends (1) on the elements inherent in the germ-cells of the parents, and (2) on the environment of those germ-cells before their union and also after their fusion to form a new being; that a critical study of the relatives of a prospective parent will give valuable evidence regarding the nature of the elements-good, bad and indifferent—inherent in