those men who own immense fortunes, because their forefathers bought land at desert prices, that by the chapter of accidents or circumstances has developed into a great city, and made their fortunes without any effort of their own. The reasoning, if sound, would apply to all ''inheritances." If it be unfair for one man to succeed to the Wealth of his father, is it not unjust that some inherit from their parents special proclivities toward genius, whilst others have strong tendencies to crime. Inheritance, with the impartial law of natural things, deals out its blessings or its curse, apparently unheeding all human interests. Diseases are transmitted often with increasing force and virulence as generations are born into the world. There is no more forcible means which nature possesses of consigning a race to the oblivion of extinction than that of perpetuating its ailments, and of fostering its physical degeneracy. Year by year the ailment grows in intensity. The phases of disease advance and evolve with rapid strides. The legacy bequeathed to one generation is received with accumulated interest by the next, and thus the old idea of the sins of the father and their consequences finds its justification in the perpetuation, by natural laws, of the products of unwise living or mistaken existence. And with disease, so with poverty ; unless the real cause be searched out and removed, there is no possibility of getting rid of it. Many good and intelligent men tell me it is in the race, and poverty is a curse that cannot be eradicated. "The child reaps the whirlwind, whereof its parent had but sown the wind." But every human being is a storehouse of latent filets and tendencies. In every child born into this world there are hidden, but