PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I THE STORY OF DEBORAH
CHAPTER II THE DATA
THE CHARTS
CHAPTER III WHAT IT MEANS
CHAPTER IV FURTHER FACTS ABOUT THE KALLIKAK FAMILY
CHAPTER V WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
THE KALLIKAK FAMILY
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Deborah Kallikak, as she appears To-day at the Training School.
THE
KALLIKAK FAMILY
A STUDY IN THE HEREDITY OF
FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS
BY
HENRY HERBERT GODDARD, Ph.D.
Director of the Research Laboratory of the Training School
at Vineland, New Jersey, for Feeble-minded Girls
and Boys
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
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Copyright, 1912,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1912. Reprinted
February, 1913; February, 1914; September, 1916.
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J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
MR. SAMUEL S. FELS
A LAYMAN WITH THE SCIENTIST’S LOVE OF TRUTH AND THE
TRUE CITIZEN’S LOVE OF HUMANITY WHO MADE POSSIBLE
THIS STUDY AND WHO HAS FOLLOWED
THE WORK FROM ITS INCIPIENCY WITH
KINDLY CRITICISM AND ADVICE
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED