Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings, Fifteenth Annual Meeting American Sociological Society Held at Washington, D. C. December 27-29, 1920, Vol. 15 In employing the word endemics to convey this thought, I do so with some trepidation, realizing that even now our dictionaries are sadly overworked. But, on the other hand, we already have alliterative and complementary terms in the words eugenics and euthenics, ' and these sciences, combined, work together admirably into a study Of national welfare, since the one emphasizes improve ment in heredity and the other in environment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.