No More Learning

Bowers told the 1916
meeting of the American Prison Association of his study of 100
recidivists, each of whom had been convicted not fewer than four times.
Of these 12 were insane, 23 feeble-minded and 10 epileptic, and in each
case Dr. Bowers said the mental defect bore a direct causal relation to
the crime committed. Such studies argue for the need of a little
elementary biology in the administration of justice.

[86] For a sane and cautious discussion of the subject see Wallin, J. E.
W. , "A Program for the State Care of the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic,"
_School and Society_, IV, pp. 724-731, New York, Nov. 11, 1916.

[87] Johnstone, E. R. , "Waste Land Plus Waste Humanity," _Training
School Bulletin_, XI, pp. 60-63, Vineland, N. J. , June, 1914.

[88] "Report of the Committee on the Sterilization of Criminals,"
_Journal of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology_, September,
1916. Of the operations mentioned, 634 are said to have been performed
on insane persons and one on a criminal.

[89] Guyer, M. F. , Wisconsin Eugenics Legislation. Trans. Amer. Asso.
Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1917, pp. 92-97.

[90] Eugenics Record Office, Bulletin No. 10 A, _The Scope of the
Committee's Work_, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. , Feb. , 1914; No. 10 B, _The
Legal, Legislative and Administrative Aspects of Sterilization_, same
date.

[91] Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 9: _State Laws Limiting
Marriage Selection Examined in the Light of Eugenics_. Cold Spring
Harbor, L. I. , June, 1913.

[92] Penrose, Clement A. , _Sanitary Conditions in the Bahama Islands_,
Geographical Society of Baltimore, 1905.

[93] See von. Gruber and Rudin, _Fortpflanzung, Vererbung,
Rassenhygiene_, p. 169, Munchen, 1911.

[94] Davenport, Charles B. , _Heredity in Relation to Eugenics_, pp. 184
ff. , New York, 1911.

[95] Harris, J. Arthur, "Assortative Mating in Man," _Popular Science
Monthly_, LXXX, pp. 476-493, May, 1912. The most important studies on
the subject are cited by Dr. Harris.

[96] An interesting and critical treatment of sexual selection is given
by Vernon L. Kellogg in _Darwinism To-day_, pp. 106-128 (New York,
1908). Darwin's own discussion (_The Descent of Man_) is still very well
worth reading, if the reader is on his guard. The best general treatment
of the theory of sexual selection, especially as it applies to man, is
in chapter XI of Karl Pearson's _Grammar of Science_ (2d ed. , London,
1900).

[97] Diffloth, Paul, _Le Fin de L'Enigme_, Paris, 1907.

[98] The best popular yet scientific treatment of the subject we have
seen is _The Dynamic of Manhood_, a book recently written by Luther H.
Gulick for the Young Men's Christian Association (New York, The
Association Press, 1917).

[99] The sympathy which we mentioned as the beginning of the
hypothetical love affair does lead to a partial identity of will, it is
true; but there is often too little in common between the man and woman
to make this identity at all complete. As Karl Pearson points out, it is
almost essential to a successful marriage that two people have sympathy
with each other's aims and a considerable degree of similarity in
habits. If such a bond is lacking, the bond of sympathy aroused by some
trivial circumstance will not be sufficient to keep the marriage from
shipwreck. The occasional altruism of young men who marry inferior girls
because they "feel sorry for them" is not praiseworthy.

[100] Ellis, Havelock, _The Task of Social Hygiene_, pp. 208-209,
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1912.

[101] G. Stanley Hall (_Adolescence_, II, 113) found the following
points, in order, specified as most admired in the other sex by young
men and women in their teens: eyes, hair, stature and size, feet,
eyebrows, complexion, cheeks, form of head, throat, ears, chin, hands,
neck, nose. The voice was highly specialized and much preferred. The
principal dislikes, in order, were: prominent or deep-set eyes, fullness
of neck, ears that stand out, eyebrows that meet, broad and long feet,
high cheek-bones, light eyes, large nose, small stature, long neck or
teeth, bushy brows, pimples, red hair. An interesting study of some of
the trivial traits of manner which may be handicaps in sexual selection
is published by Iva Lowther Peters in the _Pedagogical Seminary_, XXIII,
No. 4, pp. 550-570, Dec. , 1916.

[102] It has been suggested that the same goal would be reached if a
young man before marriage would take out a life insurance policy in the
name of his bride. The suggestion has many good points.

[103] The correlation between fecundity and longevity which Karl Pearson
has demonstrated gives longevity another great advantage as a standard
in sexual selection. See _Proc. Royal Soc. London_, Vol. 67, p. 159.

[104] It is objected that if the long-lived marry each other, the
short-lived will also marry each other and thus the race will gain no
more than it loses. The reply to this is that the short-lived will marry
in fewer numbers, as some of them die prematurely; that they will have
fewer children; and that these children in turn will tend to die young.
Thus the short-lived strains will gradually run out, while the
long-lived strains are disseminated.

[105] Hankins, F. H. , "The Declining Birth-Rate," _Journal of Heredity_,
V, pp. 36-39, August, 1914.

[106] Smith, Mary Roberts, "Statistics of College and Non-college
Women," Quarterly Pubs. of the _American Statistical Assn. _, VII, p. 1
ff. , 1900.

[107] "Statistics of Eminent Women," _Pop. Sci. Mo. _, June, 1913.

[108] "Marriage of College Women," _Century Magazine_, Oct. , 1895.

[109] Blumer, J. O. , in _Journal of Heredity_, VIII, p. 217, May, 1917.

[110] The statistics of this and the following middle west universities
were presented by Paul Popenoe in the _Journal of Heredity_, VIII, pp.
43-45.

[111] _Harvard Graduates' Magazine_, XXV, No. 97, pp. 25-34, September,
1916.

[112] Popenoe, Paul, "Stanford's Marriage-Rate," _Journal of Heredity_,
VIII, p. 170-173.

[113] Banker, Howard J. , "Co-education and Eugenics," _Journal of
Heredity_, VIII, pp. 208-214, May, 1917.

[114] _Eugenics: Twelve University Lectures_, p. 9, New York, 1914.

[115] Cf. Gould, Miriam C. , "The Psychological Influence upon Adolescent
Girls of the Knowledge of Prostitution and Venereal Disease," _Social
Hygiene_, Vol. II, pp. 191-207, April, 1916. This interesting and
important study of the reactions of 50 girls reveals that present
methods or indifference to the need of reasonable methods of teaching
sex-hygiene are responsible for "a large percentage of harmful results,
such as conditions bordering on neurasthenia, melancholia, pessimism and
sex antagonism. "

[116] Gallichan, Walter M. , _The Great Unmarried_, New York, 1916.

[117] Sprague, Robert J. , "Education and Race Suicide," _Journal of
Heredity_, Vol. VI, pp. 158 ff. , April, 1915. Many of the statistics of
women's colleges, cited in the first part of this chapter, are from Dr.
Sprague's paper.

[118] Odin calculated that 16% of the eminent men of France had at least
one relative who was in some way eminent; that 22% of the men of real
talent had such relation; and that among the geniuses the percentage
rose to 40. There are thus two chances out of five that a man of genius
will have an eminent relative; for a man picked at random from the
population the chance is one in several thousand. See Odin, A. , _La
Genese des Grands Hommes_, Vol. I, p. 432 and Vol. II, Tableau xii,
Lausanne, 1895.

[119] Crum, Frederick S. , "The Decadence of the Native American Stock,"
_Quarterly Pubs. Am. Statistical Assn. _, XIV, n. s. 107, pp. 215-223,
Sept. , 1914.

[120] Kuczynski, R. R. , _Quarterly Journ. of Economics_, Nov. 1901, and
Feb. , 1902.

[121] Nearing, Scott, "The Younger Generation of American Genius," _The
Scientific Monthly_, II, pp. 48-61, Jan. , 1916. "Geographical
Distribution of American Genius," _Popular Science Monthly_, II, August,
1914.

[122] In the chapter on Sexual Selection it was shown that the Normal
School girls who stood highest in their classes married earliest. This
may seem a contradiction of the Wellesley marriage rates in this table.
The explanation probably is that while mental superiority is itself
attractive in a mate, there are interferences built up in the collegiate
life.

[123] Banker, Howard J. , "Co-education and Eugenics," _Journal of
Heredity_, VIII, pp. 208-214, May, 1917.

[124] Hill, Joseph A. , "Comparative Fecundity of Women of Native and
Foreign Parentage," _Quarterly Pubs. Amer. Statistical Assn. _, XIII,
583-604.

[125] See Willcox, W. F. , "Fewer Births and Deaths: What Do They Mean? "
_Journal of Heredity_, VII, pp. 119-128, March, 1916.

[126] The data are published in full by Paul Popenoe in the _Journal of
Heredity_, October, 1917. It must be noted that, in spite of their small
salaries, the Methodist clergymen marry earlier and have more children
than do other men of equal education and social status, such as the
Harvard and Yale graduates. This difference in marriage and birth-rate
is doubtless to be credited in part to their inherent nature and in part
to the action of religious idealism. It confirms the belief of eugenists
that even under present economic circumstances the birth-rate of the
superior classes might be raised appreciably by a campaign of eugenic
education.

[127] For an official statement of the attitude of the birth-rate of the
Mormon church, see _Journal of Heredity_, VII, pp. 450-451, Oct. , 1916.

[128] Mecklin, John M. , _Democracy and Race Friction, a Study in Social
Ethics_, New York, 1914. p. 147.

[129] It would be more accurate to say the Nordic race. Other white
races have not uniformly shown this discrimination. The Mediterranean
race in particular has never manifested the same amount of race feeling.
The Arabs have tended to receive the Negro almost on terms of equality,
partly on religious grounds; it seems probable that the decadence of the
Arabs is largely due to their miscegenation.

[130] Mecklin, _op. cit. _, p. 147.

[131] Blascoer, Frances, _Colored School Children in New York_, Public
Education Association of the City of New York, 1915. The preface, from
which the quotation is taken, is by Eleanor Hope Johnson, chairman of
the committee on hygiene of school children.

[132] Mecklin, _op. cit. _, p. 32.

[133] The Negro's contribution has perhaps been most noteworthy in
music.
This does not necessarily show advanced evolution; August
Weismann long ago pointed out that music is a primitive accomplishment.
For an outline of what the Negro race has achieved, particularly in
America, see the _Negro Year Book_, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

[134] _Social Problems; Their Treatment, Past, Present and Future_, p.
8, London, 1912.

[135] Stetson, G. R. , "Memory Tests on Black and White Children,"
_Psych. Rev. _, 1897, p. 285. See also MacDonald, A. , in _Rep. U. S.
Comm. of Educ. ,_ 1897-98.

[136] Mayo, M. J. , "The Mental Capacity of the American Negro," _Arch.
of Psych. _, No. 28.

[137] Phillips, B. A. , "Retardation in the Elementary Schools of
Philadelphia," _Psych. Clinic_, VI, pp. 79-90; "The Binet Tests Applied
to Colored Children," _ibid. _, VIII, pp. 190-196.

[138] Strong, A. C. , _Ped. Sem. _, XX, pp. 485-515.

[139] Pyle, W. H. , "The Mind of the Negro Child," _School and Society_,
I, pp. 357-360.

[140] Ferguson, G. O. , Jr. , "The Psychology of the Negro," _Arch. of
Psych. _ No. 36, April, 1916.

[141] Though the Negro is not assimilable, he is here to stay; he should
therefore be helped to develop along his own lines. It is desirable not
to subject him to too severe a competition with whites; yet such
competition, acting as a stimulus, is probably responsible for part of
his rapid progress during the last century, a progress which would not
have been possible in a country where Negroes competed only with each
other. The best way to temper competition is by differentiation of
function, but this principle should not be carried to the extent of
pocketing the Negro in blind-alley occupations where development is
impossible. As mental tests show him to be less suited to literary
education than are the whites, it seems likely that agriculture offers
the best field for him.

[142] This letter, and much of the data regarding the legal status of
Negro-white amalgamation, are from an article by Albert Ernest Jenks in
the _Am. Journ. Sociology_, XXI, 5, pp. 666-679, March, 1916.

[143] A recent readable account of the races of the world is Madison
Grant's _The Passing of the Great Race_ (New York, 1916).

[144] _The Old World in the New. _ By E. A. Ross, professor of Sociology
in the University of Wisconsin, New York, 1914.

[145] Cf. Stevenson, Robert Louis, _The Amateur Emigrant_.

[146] Interview with W. Williams, former commissioner of immigration, in
the _New York Herald_, April 13, 1912.

[147] Of the total number of inmates of insane asylums of the entire U.
S. of Jan. 1, 1910, 28. 8% were whites of foreign birth, and of the
persons admitted to such institutions during the year 1910, 25. 5% were
of this class. Of the total population of the United States in 1910 the
foreign-born whites constituted 14. 5%. Special report on the insane,
Census of 1910 (pub. 1914).

[148] _The Tide of Immigration. _ By Frank Julian Warne, special expert
on foreign-born population, 13th U. S. Census, New York, 1916.

[149] _Essays in Social Justice. _ By Thomas Nixon Carver, professor of
Political Economy in Harvard University, Cambridge, 1915.

[150] Fairchild's and Jenks' opinions are quoted from Warne, Chapter
XVI.

[151] _America and the Orient: A Constructive Policy_, by Rev. Sidney L.
Gulick, Methodist Book Concern. The _American Japanese Problem: a Study
of the Racial Relations of the East and West_, New York, Scribner's.

[152] _Oriental Immigration. _ By W. C. Billings, surgeon, U. S. Public
Health Service; Chief Medical Officer, Immigration Service; Angel Island
(San Francisco), Calif. , _Journal of Heredity_, Vol. VI (1915), pp.
462-467.

[153] _Assimilation in the Philippines, etc. _ By Albert Ernest Jenks,
professor of anthropology in the University of Minnesota. _American
Journal of Sociology_, Vol. XIX (1914), p. 783.

[154] Students of the inheritance of mental and moral traits may be
interested to note that while the ordinary Chinese mestizo in the
Philippines is a man of probity, who has the high regard of his European
business associates, the Ilocanos, supposed descendants of pirates, are
considered rather tricky and dishonest.

[155] An important study of this subject was published by Professor
Vernon L. Kellogg in _Social Hygiene_ (New York), Dec, 1914.

[156] Nasmyth, George, _Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory_, p.
146, New York, 1916. While his book is too partisan, his Chapter III is
well worth reading by those who want to avoid the gross blunders which
militarists and many biologists have made in applying Darwinism to
social progress; it is based on the work of Professor J. Novikov of the
University of Odessa. See also _Headquarters Nights_ by Vernon Kellogg.

[157] Jordan, D. S. , and Jordan, H. E. , _War's Aftermath_, Boston, 1915.

[158] Jordan, David Starr, _War and the Breed_, p. 164. Boston, 1915.
Chancellor Jordan has long been the foremost exponent of the dysgenic
significance of war, and this book gives an excellent summary of the
problem from his point of view.

[159] See Woods, Frederick Adams, and Baltzly, Alexander, _Is War
Diminishing_? New York, 1916.

[160] See an interesting series of five articles in _The American
Hebrew_, Jan and Feb. , 1917.

[161] _Journal of Heredity_, VIII, pp. 277-283, June, 1917.

[162] _The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln_, New York, 1896. For the
Emancipator's maternal line see _Nancy Hanks_, by Caroline Hanks
Hitchcock. New York, 1899.

[163] _The Life of Pasteur_ by his son-in-law, Rene Vallery Radot,
should be read by every student of biology.

[164] Hollingworth, H. L. , _Vocational Psychology_, pp. 212-213, New
York, 1916.

[165] Sir Francis Galton and C. B. Davenport have called attention to
the probable inheritance of artistic ability and lately H. Drinkwater
(_Journal of Genetics_, July, 1916), has attempted to prove that it is
due to a Mendelian unit. The evidence alleged is inadequate to prove
that the trait is inherited in any particular way, but the pedigrees
cited by these three investigators, and the boyhood histories of such
artists as Benjamin West, Giotto, Ruskin and Turner, indicate that an
hereditary basis exists.

[166] The difficulty about accepting such traits as this is that they
are almost impossible of exact definition. The long teaching experience
of Mrs. Evelyn Fletcher-Copp (_Journal of Heredity_, VII, 297-305, July,
1916) suggests that any child of ordinary ability can and will compose
music if properly taught, but of course in different degree.

[167] Seashore, C. E. , in _Psychol. Monogs,_ XIII, No. 1, pp. 21-60,
Dec. , 1910. See also Fletcher-Copp, _ubi sup. _ Mrs. Copp declares that
the gift of "positive pitch" or "absolute pitch," i. e. , the ability to
name any sound that is heard, "may be acquired, speaking very
conservatively, by 80% of normal children," if they begin at an early
age. It may be that this discrepancy with Seashore's careful laboratory
tests is due to the fact that the pupils and teachers trained by Mrs.
Copp are a selected lot, to start with.

[168] The contributions on this subject are very widely scattered
through periodical literature. The most important is Karl Pearson's
memoir (1914), reviewed in the _Journal of Heredity_, VI, pp. 332-336,
July, 1915. See also Gini, Corrado, "The Superiority of the Eldest,"
_Journal of Heredity_, VI, 37-39, Jan. , 1915.

[169] _Journal of Heredity_, VIII, pp. 299-302, July, 1917.

[170] _Biometrika_, IV, pp. 233-286, London, 1905.

[171] See, for example, _Journal of Heredity_, VIII, pp. 394-396,
September, 1917. A large body of evidence from European sources, bearing
on the relation between various characters of the offspring, and the age
of the parents, was brought together by Corrado Gini in Vol. II,
_Problems in Eugenics_ (London, 1913).

[172] Davenport, Charles B. , "The Personality, Heredity and Work of
Charles Otis Whitman," _American Naturalist_, LI, pp. 5-30, Jan. , 1917.

[173] Gillette, John M. , _Constructive Rural Sociology_, p. 89, New
York, 1916.

[174] Cook, O. F. , "Eugenics and Agriculture," _Journal of Heredity_,
VII, pp. 249-254, June, 1916.

[175] Gillette, John M. , "A Study in Social Dynamics: A Statistical
Determination of the Rate of Natural Increase and of the Factors
Accounting for the Increase of Population in the United States,"
_Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association,_ n. s.
116, Vol. XV, pp. 345-380, December, 1916.

[176] The popular demand for "equality of opportunity" is, if taken
literally, absurd, in the light of the provable inequality of abilities.
What is wanted is more correctly defined as an equal consideration of
all with an _appropriate_ opportunity for each based on his demonstrated
capacities.

[177] _Essays in Social Justice. _ By Thomas Nixon Carver, Harvard
University Press, 1915, pp. 168-169.

[178] Answering the question "How Much is a Man Worth? " Professor Carver
states the following axioms:

"The value of a man equals his production minus his consumption. "

"His economic success equals his acquisition minus his consumption. "

"When his acquisition equals his production then his economic success
equals his value. "

"It is the duty of the state to make each man's acquisition equal his
production. That is justice. "

Of course, "production" is here used in a broad sense, to mean the real
social value of the services rendered, and not merely the present
exchange value of the services, or the goods produced.

[179] Kornhauser, A. W. , "Economic Standing of Parents and the
Intelligence of their Children," _Jour. of Educ. Psychology_, Vol. IX. ,
pp.