whose offspring is likely to be normal, whose children economic efficiency, who believes in the "joy of living" ka and others have shown, intolerance of alcohol is an ex- nature, sport, who gives rein to the domestic affec- That excess in alcohol frequently occurs in degenerate tions, and who in his eating and drinking includes the Dr. Eugene S. Talbot, in his book on "Degeneracy, syncrasy (like that which forbids certain people to eat shell- cess in alcohol as well as even lower phases. both reasons combined. Such total abstainers leave degen- The offspring of an anti-alcoholist is far more likely does not sacrifice everything to business success or becomes either a total abstainer because of a personal idio- fish lest nettle-rash occur) or because of parsimony, or for Its Causes, Signs and Results," says: to become a drunkard than the offspring of a temper- ate user of alcoholic beverages. will become neither drunkards nor criminals nor pau- keep his nerves at extreme tension and his powers at stocks is undeniable. But, as Krafft-Ebing, Kiernan, Spitz- pression of degeneracy. The person intolerant of alcohol The person who lives a normal, wholesome life, who and indulges in it to a proper extent, who does not temperate use of alcoholic beverages, he is the one high pressure all the time, who enjoys literature, art, erate offspring in which degeneracy assumes the type of ex- 117