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Prejudice, prae-judicium, is a product of the sub-conscious mind, the fruitage of preconceived notions which, without the control afforded by in-duction from observed facts, reasons deductively and reaches conclusions based upon premises quite as liable to be erroneous as true.

It is not the contention of this paper that asexualization is justifiable in all imbecile children, but that as a therapeutic measure in selected cases it is to be commended.

Many intelligent parents give their consent without hesitation and in one instance the mother of an imbecile boy voluntarily made the request that it should be done for the reason that she had discovered that the boy's periodical visits home from the Training School were a menace to the household. But what shall be done in the case of the child descended from feeble-minded parents who are therefore incompetent to decide?