THE ANNALS

OF THE

AMERICAN ACADEMY

OF

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

ISSUED BI-MONTHLY

VOL. XXXIV, No. 1 JULY, 1909

EDITOR: EMORY R. JOHNSON

ASSISTANT EDITOR: CHESTER LLOYD JONES

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: G. G. HUEBNER, CARL KELSEY, L. S. ROWE,
WALTER S. TOWER, FRANK D. WATSON, JAMES T. YOUNG

PHILADELPHIA

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

36th and Woodland Avenue

Carl Kelsey, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Penn-

sylvania.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A SOUND PHYSIQUE

9

Dudley Allen Sargent, M.D., Director, Hemenway Gymnasium,

Harvard University.

INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY ON HUMAN SOCIETY

16

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Charles B. Davenport, Director, Station for Experimental Evo-

lution (Carnegie Institution), Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.

RACE IMPROVEMENT BY CONTROL OF DEFECTIVES (NEGA-

TIVE EUGENICS)

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......

Alexander Johnson, General Secretary, National Conference of

Charities and Correction, Fort Wayne, Ind.

PART II

INFLUENCE OF CITY ENVIRONMENT ON NATIONAL

LIFE AND VIGOR

POPULAR RECREATION AND PUBLIC MORALITY

....

Luther H. Gulick, M.D., Chairman, Playground Extension

Committee, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.

EVIDENCES OF RACE DEGENERATION IN THE UNITED

STATES

.....

Woods Hutchinson, A.M., M.D., New York City.

ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU........

Hon. Herbert Parsons, Member of Congress from New York.

CITY DETERIORATION AND THE NEED OF CITY SURVEY.......

Professor Patrick Geddes, University College, Dundee, Scotland.

PART III

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OBSTACLES TO RACE PROGRESS IN THE UNITED STATES

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DECREASING PROPORTION OF

W. S. Rossiter, Chief Clerk of the United States Census.

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48

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71

ALCOHOLISM AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY

......

Charles L. Dana, M.D., LL.D., New York City, Professor of

Nervous Diseases, Cornell Medical College.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW.........

Champe S. Andrews, Esq., New York City.

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85

THE INVASION OF FAMILY LIFE BY INDUSTRY

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Mrs. Florence Kelley, Secretary, National Consumers' League,

New York City.

THE INSTABILITY OF THE FAMILY

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97

J. P. Lichtenberger, Ph.D., Bureau of Social Research, New

York City.

THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN SOCIETY 106

Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, LL.D., President, Lafayette Col-

lege, Easton, Pa.

Hon. William S. Bennet, Member of Congress for New York,

and Member of the Immigration Commission.

IMMIGRATION AND THE AMERICAN LABORING CLASSES................ 125

John Mitchell, Chairman, Trade Agreement Department,

National Civic Federation, New York.

RACE PROGRESS AND IMMIGRATION

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130

William Z. Ripley, Professor of Economics, Harvard Uni-

versity.

PART V

CLINICAL STUDY AND TREATMENT OF NORMAL AND

ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT

PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC WITH PRESENTATION OF CASES.. 141

Dr. Lightner Witmer, Professor of Psychology, University of

Pennsylvania.

REPORT OF (THIRTEENTH) ANNUAL MEETING COMMITTEE.. 163

BOOK DEPARTMENT

173

CONDUCTED BY FRANK D. WATSON

Notes, pp. 173-195.

REVIEWS

ALLEN-Civics and Health (p. 195)

.C. Kelsey ......C. L. Jones

ANGIER-The Far East Revisited (p. 105); MILLARD—America

and the Far Eastern Question (p. 195) .. BADDELEY-The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus (p. 197)..8. N. Harper BEAULIEU-Collectivism (p. 198)

..H. R. Mussey

......

8. N. Harper

BRÜCKNER-A Literary History of Russia (p. 199) CHANCELLOR Our City Schools, Their Direction and Management (p. 200)

CONYNGTON—A Manual of Corporate Management (3d ed.)

.....

.J. S. Hiatt

.J. J. Sullivan

(p. 201) CRICHFIELD-American Supremacy (2 vols.) (p. 202) .....C. L. Jones CROZIER-My Inner Life (2 vols.) (p. 203)

...Lurena W. Tower

DUTTON and SNEDDEN-The Administration of Public Education in the United States (p. 203)

.....J. L. Barnard

FERRERO-The Greatness and Decline of Rome (4 vols.) (p. 205)

......

....A. C. Howland

HENDERSON-Industrial Insurance in the United States (p.

207)

....

.G. B. Mangold .Nellie M. S. Nearing

KEY-The Century of the Child (p. 208)
KUROPATKIN-The Russian Army and the Japanese War (2 vols.)
(p. 209)

.C. L. Jones .T. W. Mitchell

LOWNHAUPT-Investment Bonds (p. 210)
MOODY-Moody's Analyses of Railroad Investments (p. 210)..F. R. Johnson
RASMUSSEN-The People of the Polar North (p. 211).... W. 8. Tower
RAY-The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (p. 212)........C. L. Jones
SCHURZ-The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz (3 vols.) (p. 213)..C. L. Jones
SELIGMAN-Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice (p.

214)

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......C. L. Seiler

SHAW-The Precinct of Religion in the Culture of Humanity (p.

STEINER-Tolstoy, the Man and His Message (p. 216)

TAYLOR―The Science of Jurisprudence (p. 216)

WALLAS-Human Nature in Politics (p. 218)

.Mary Lloyd ...H. R. Mussey

.S. Nearing .C. L. Jones .W. E. Hotchkiss

WESTERMARCK-The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas

(Vol. II) (p. 219)

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...C. Kelsey

LIST OF CONTINENTAL AGENTS

FRANCE: L. Larose, Rue Souflot 22, Paris.

GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W.. ITALY: Direcione del Giornale degli Economisti, via Monte Savello, Palazzo Orsini, Rome.

SPAIN: Libreria Nacional y Extranjera de E. Dossat, antes, E. Capdeville, 9 Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid.

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