The right to be well born : or, Horse breeding in its relation to eugenics by Stokes William Earl Dodge 1852-

Author:Stokes, William Earl Dodge, 1852-
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Eugenics, Heredity, Horses
Publisher: New York : C.J. O'Brien
Published: 1917-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Cannot the world see this and see it now?

EELATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE SEXES.

I like to think of sexual reproduction as it might be expressed figuratively. The female may be said to represent Mother Earth. To feed the world, the Earth requires unlimited care. Only after extensive preparation is it ready to receive the husbandman's seed and to transform it into a harvest of a hundred fold. The same cultivation to prepare the field for the seed is necessary to precede motherhood. Soil, at its best, gives the maximum return. Prospective motherhood should be at its best

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before the seed of an immortal being is intrusted to it for development. Why should not women look forward to this great creative experience and prepare themselves for it,—abstain, abstain, and live a normal life? Eemember how the Spartan mother gloried in the health, intellect and strength of her sons! Should not man have pride in himself, pride in his children, and be willing for their sake to abstain, himself, from excesses? "Whatever seed ye sow, so shall ye reap."

We declare that the social diseases, dissipation and over-indulgence, unfit men for fatherhood. I inquire why the highballs, drinks of alcoholic origin, cigarettes and kindred indulgences, do not, equally, unfit women for the office of motherhood? The abused earth yields an inferior crop, no matter how good the seed, and you see it in the face and form of the child. Mothers, stop and think! Will you knowingly injure your own offspring?

Drinking, cigarette smoking and fast living are depriving children of their natural birthright. If men and women will drink,

they should postpone such indulgence until after the reproductive period has passed. On the other hand, the syphilitic should be isolated and ostracized as unfit, not only for parentage, but as a menace to upright men and women. No man, who has honest intentions toward the woman he desires to marry, should hesitate to instantly show his intended, or her advisor, his ancestral pedigree, and submit himself to a physical ex-, amination. Otherwise, he is undesirable and has something to hide.

LAWS OF HEREDITY THE SAME JN MAN, PLANT OE BEAST.

The immutable law of heredity is not comprehended when men are under consideration. When I say I only can produce worthy horses, as I marshal the forces of heredity in the right way, I am believed. When the dog fancier declares that his blue-ribbon dogs are entirely due to the right kind of breeding, no one doubts him. The dairyman would be considered irresponsible, did he claim that record butter cows

could be made by stable, feed and care, regardless of their ancestry.

While this is true, so far as domestic animals are concerned, intelligent men refuse to believe that their own children are subject to the same force of heredity. Let me here emphasize the fact that the laws of heredity apply to man with as much accuracy as they do to plant or beast and every scientist acknowledges such to be the case.

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