with him it would, indeed, have been a dire misfortune! They would have been lower than both, mentally and physically, in the scale of humanity. They would have been more animal than human, as far as the social passions are concerned. Take a careful look at Little Sam, he

is the product of just such a union. He is a rapist, a sneak-thief; in short, a Negro degenerate. He is but one of thousands, born in the South every year, the result of criminal and degenerate unions among themselves, and with others mismated.

We have intimated elsewhere that in his native or primitive conditions in Africa, the Negro can procreate without any marked deterioration in his offspring. An instance has come under the writer's observation where a brother and sister became separated during the war, grew to manhood and womanhood, met and married in the East, and after a number of years, when they had a large family of children together, discovered through investigation that they were related. Their children were as good as any, but this proves nothing. Many instances have been found where brothers and sisters produced as fine offspring together, as they did with others not related to them; but the American Negro has undergone such a process of evolution, and has been crossed to such an extent with the Caucasian, that careful selections are of far more importance among them, than among any race of people on earth. And it is not improper to say here, that Little Sam belongs to that class of Negroes, absolutely unfit to procreate with any kind, of any race. And to prevent such from further demoralizing the human race, it is proper and just, in the sight of God and man, that they be rendered sterile. Do not misunderstand us. We do not mean that they should have this inflicted upon them as a punishment for crimes perpetrated. Scientifi

cally speaking, they are not guilty of any crime committed, no matter how shocking or horrible. They take to certain crimes as naturally as a duck does to water. They may hang them, roast them alive, or by degrees hack and slice them up, as a butcher does a carcass; as a mob of poor, deluded creatures has sometimes done in this highly civilized country (?); yet as far as we phrenological scientists are .concerned, there is no more reason, no more justice, in such horrible, outrageous procedure than there is in dealing out justice to a duck, by cutting off her head, because she persists in taking to the pond in the back lot. As all others, these beings are creatures of circumstances. They are not what they are by choice but by nature; the result of ignorance on the part of mankind.

HOW MUCH BETTER NOT THUS BORN. A great deal of training from early childhood of the undeveloped moral faculties would be of marked benefit to them, as a constant supply of blood to these faculties, or that portion of the brain where they are located, decreases the amount of stimulation to that part which is abnormally developed, and, consequently, decreases this intense, undesirable mental operation; but this scientific training is not intelligently given, and so no results may be looked for in that direction to any marked extent.

And in case this method of treatment would be adopted generally, the blessings thus conferred upon mankind would after all not be much greater than at present, as the mischief of this class cannot be curbed by all mental gymnastics within the reach of this or any other age. Where it has been tried the old thing has cropped out again in such creatures of misfortune, even in remote generations.

It is much easier to stop up a leak in a boat than to bail out the water as fast as it comes in. Some children, of every race and color, thus unfortunately developed will undoubtedly always be born; but how much better, how much more humane not to let more be born than is absolutely necessary, to grow up, commit a social crime and then be imprisoned or executed by the people who allow this condition of things to exist from lack of knowledge?

PHRENOLOGICAL

LOCATION OF

THE SOCIAL EVIL.-Our lamented friend, Prof. L. A. Vaught, the author of "Vaught's Practical Character Reader," has so well illustrated this point, that we are induced to give his drawing and timely explanation, such as we have in mind. He says: "The social evil is a fact. Many good and learned people are trying to check, modify or suppress it. Their intentions are good. They shoot at it with tongue and pen.