FIRST EVIDENCE OF DEGENERACY
DOCTOR'S STARTLING 'TPOM ■ „. \ .V---SELF-MADE MEN 3y Tol*era.pli—friaji AaSbciaHon-GoSSi'ighl "Times" Wid Bjdacv "Bail" Sorvicce. (H-ec. May 6, $.20 p.m.) itondoh., May 6, Dr, Frederick ,WnHior M-ott,. who hnlds the position of Pathologist to tho Jiondon- County Asylums,- and vvho is now engaged in investigating tire neuropathology (the snm of hitman knowledge concerning discasos of the ,uervo«s system) of insanity, in discussing tho subject of neuropathic inhcritaiiee, slibivs tluit the pattern ef the Iranian brain is capable of being inherited just-as tl» shape of the features aw inherited. Ho makes tlio that self-niat3o mftil not inCrnqucutly form tho first step in the process of degeneration. Tho selfishness fttscl moral guilfi hy wliieli they amassed fortunes for their children to spend sntfislily is tlio first evidence of degeneracy", TJhj children, possessing the savito Ecllish instinct with ita need to work, atjiiuire vicious habits and criminal psroponsities, and frequently terminate their careers in the madhouse.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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155FIRST EVIDENCE OF DEGENERACY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 5
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