Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1912 — The Cure for Degeneration. [ARTICLE]

The Cure for Degeneration.

Attention Is Just now rather too mudh concentrated —with th» most; humanitarian motives, to be sure—-out that kind of social perfection which; consists In bringing everybody up to* an average. It is time to emphasize* also the Importance of producing andi making the most of the few really! great men through whom the world mainly progresses, the pioneer* and* the prophet* of civilization end the* arts. Of degeneration we have a morbid and needless fear; the best cure* for it Is not medical science, but social Justice. Break up th* take the hoys out of gang* and find them clean sport and congenial workj Pull down the rookeries, let in the| sun and air, keep human life from fee-* terlng in rotten places and nature will! do the rest Breeds and race* mayj die out, but there are always new* ones being created, and nature is herself the greatest of regenerating forces, destroying the decadent evenj a she checks the superman before b*i becomes as the gods.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican.