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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: Turn to Robert M. Yerkes's ``Psychological Examining in the United
States Army''[1] in which we are informed that the psychological
examination of the drafted men indicated that nearly half--47.3 per
cent.--of the population had the mentality of twelve-year-old children
or less--in other words that they are morons. Professor Conklin, in
his recently published volume ``The Direction of Human Evolution''[2]
is led, on the findings of Mr. Yerkes's report, to assert: ``Assuming
that these drafted men are a fair sample of the entire population of
approximately 100,000,000, this means that 45,000,000 or nearly one-
half the entire population, will never develop mental capacity beyond
the stage represented by a normal twelve-year-old child, and that only
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