As a postscript, Gould took the photographs published by Goddard to a Harvard photographic specialist who determined that the photographs were altered: mouths and eyebrows were accentuated to produce an appearance of evil or stupidity.
"The whole family was a
living demonstration of the futility of trying to make desirable citizens
from defective stock through making and enforcing compulsory education
laws........In this house of abject poverty, only one sure prospect was
ahead, that it would produce more feeble-minded children with which to
clog the wheels of human progress."
(Goddard 1912, pp.77-78)
As a postscript, Gould took the photographs published
by Goddard to a Harvard photographic specialist who determined that the
photographs were altered: mouths and eyebrows were accentuated to
produce an appearance of evil or stupidity.