Jacob's Flocks; An Illustrative Case; Beliefs of Primitive Peoples; Birthmarks Rare; Why Children Resemble Parents; Life's Experiences Affecting Child; Germ-plasm; Congenital Deformities; Psychical Diseases; Telegony; Power of Heredity; Sobriety in the Father; Sacredness of Parentage; Self-control; 55 HEREDITY AND EDUCATION. Theories; Continuity of the Germ-plasm; A Rational View of Heredity; Heredity and the Education of Children; Intellectual Acquirements; Instinct; Knowledge or Heredity; Individuality; Spectre of Heredity; 100 EVOLUTION'S HOPEFUL PROMISE FOR A HEALTHIER RACE. Sexual Selection; Human Selection; Natural Selection; Conflict between Evolutionary Theories and our Humane Sentiments; Ideal of Health; Adaptation to Environment; Knowledge; Effects of Living at High Pressure; Girls in Manufacturing Districts; Co-operation: an Example; Hygiene; 130 THE GERM-PLASM; ITS RELATION TO OFFSPRING. What is the Germ-plasm? The Primitive Egg; Fertilization of the Mother-cell Necessary to Produce True Germ-plasm; What Fertilization Does; Its Process; Helps to Explain Heredity; Health of the Germ-plasm Necessary in Stirpiculture; Surplus Vitality Necessary for Producing the Best Children; Duncan's Statistics as to Ages of Parents of Finest Children; Effects of Alcohol on Offspring; Food and the Germ-plasm; Effect of Air and Water on Germ-plasm; Effect of Diseases on Germ-plasm; Every Child Born an Experiment; 162 FEWER AND BETTER CHILDREN. Darwin's Opinions; Race Modifications by Natural Selection; Grant Allen's Views; Spencer's Views on Parental Duties; Limiting Offspring Among the Natives of Uganda; The Fijians; Children of Large Families often Superior to those in Small Families; Some Reasons for this; 179 A THEORETICAL BABY. Our First Baby; We had Theories; What Some of Them Were; My Wife's Love for Me; My Sentiments; The Child's Easy Birth; Mother's Rapid Convalescence; The Child's First Bath; Forming Good Habits Early; No Crying at Night; Never Rocked to Sleep; His Bed; Keeping the Stomach and Bowels Right; Colic, Irritability and the Necessity for Diapers Eliminated; Number of Meals Daily; The Infant's Clothing; At One Year Old; Teething Gives Little Trouble; Requires Considerable Water; Learning to Creep, Stand, Walk and Talk by His Own Efforts; Invents His Own Amusements; Companionship With Parents; Mothering; Learning Self-control; Obedience; Playmates; 184 Notes 199 STIRPICULTURE.