CHAPTER IV.. Insanity and Alcoholism.

INSANITY AND ALCOHOLISM.

Nerve Derangements, Insanity--The Importance of preventing its Transmission--Marriages of Insane Persons--Alcoholism a Habit, and Alcoholism a Sign of Mental Instability--Drink is a Selective Agency--Parents who drink from Habit may have Debilitated Offspring--Preventive Measures--Drink among Australian Convicts--Drink and Prevention in America--Public Habit and Conscience the best Preventive--The Power of the Community over the Individual--The Necessity for replacing one Selective Agency by another--How it is that the Production of Children by Diseased Parents is tolerated--The Necessity for producing Posterity out of our Best Types 69–89