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I have spoken of "degenerate," conservatives, and "degenerate" radicals. By "degenerate", I do not mean that a person is necessarily a mental or a physical wreck, it does go to these extremes it is true, but that they are not thorough breds. What I want to show is the cause and start of degeneracy.
If you were to breed a thorbred trotting mare to a thorough bred coach horse, the progeny might be a valuable animal, but would not be true to either type, you could not expect it to excell either as a trotter or as a coach. Thus in the human family. A Mormon girl and a Catholic boy are born neighbors, grow up side by side, and go to school together, each is physically and mentally a thoroughbred; They fall in love and can see no reason why they should not marry; They do, the religious differences are comprimised; she can either go to his church or he can desert his and join hers, or neither, it is immaterial.