FOOTNOTES:
[20] One of the most characteristic processes of social dissolution is parasitism. Massart and Vandervelde, Parasitism, organic and social. (English translation.) Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., London.
[21] Broca, Les sélections (§ 6. Les sélections sociales) in Mémoires d' anthropologie, Paris, 1877, III., 205. Lapouge, Les sélections sociales, in Revue d' anthrop., 1887, p. 519. Loria, Discourse su Carlo Darwin, Sienne, 1882. Vadala, Darwinismo naturale e Darwinismo sociale, Turin, 1883. Bordier, La vie des sociétés, Paris, 1887. Sergi, Le degenerazione umane, Milan, 1889, p. 158. Bebel, Woman in the past, present and future.
[22] Max Nordau, Conventional Lies of our Civilization. (English trans.) Laird & Lee, Chicago, 1895.
[23] While this is shown by all official statistics, it is signally shown by the facts collated by M. Pagliani, the present Director-General of the Bureau of Health in the Interior Department, who has shown that the bodies of the poor are more backward and less developed than those of the rich, and that this difference, though but slightly manifest at birth, becomes greater and greater in after life, i. e. as soon as the influence of the economic conditions makes itself felt in all its inexorable tyranny.
[24] Turati, Selezione servile, in Critica Sociale, June 1, 1894. Sergi, Degenerazione umane, Milan, 1889.
[25] Jacoby, Etudes sur la sélection dans ses rapports avec l'hérédité chez l'homme, Paris, 1881, p. 606.
Lombroso, L'uomo di genio, 6th edition, Turin, 1894, has developed and complemented this law. This law, so easily forgotten, is neglected by Ritchie (Darwinism and Politics. London. Sonnenschein, 1891.) in the section called "Does the doctrine of Heredity support Aristocracy?"