Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1911 — When Genius Becomes Insanity. [ARTICLE]

When Genius Becomes Insanity.

Where my eugenic friend goes wrong is in failing to realize that a preat many of the maladies which h.e jails degeneracy are Just too much of the highly developed nervous system which is the special endowment of the gifted families, writes J. A. Spangler In Westminster Gazette. Overcharge the battery ever so little and genids becomes insanity; give one member of the family a volt too much and the delicate balance of physical and mental qualities on which sanity depends is broken down. Extinguish the family" and you will rid the world of some degeneration, but you will also and at the same time rob it of some of its most gifted men. The doctrine of heredity should never be forgotten by parents or remembered by children. To the first it is the assertion of their responsibility; to the second a reminder of their helplessness.