Excerpt from Husband and Wife: Or the Science of Human Development Through Inherited Tendencies The last Census reports of the United States exhibit respective ly in round numbers, twenty-four thousand insane, eighteen thou sand idiotie, fourteen thousand deaf and dumb, and eleven thou sand blind among us - a fearful army for a nation of less than thirty millions, claiming to be, all things considered, the most enlightened people on the earth. When we reflect that in all probability many thousand imbeciles, barely separated by a carcely appreciable development from idiots, escaped numera non, we may well begin to inquire for the remedies of this fearful state of things; and call to their posts those whom Nature has empowered to prevent such terrible evils. These are the mothers, the women of our nation: what they in their creative capacity, have left undone for their Offspring, the idiot-trainer, the criminal Judge, or prison discipline, must do in their stead. For these vic tims Of their ignorance or faithlessness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.