7O BASIS OF INVESTIGATION. 



EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



On page 125 of "Darwinism and Race Progress," Haycraft 

 says: 



"The doors of every profession were barred except to those who 

 possessed capital, and the children of the poor were frequently un- 

 able to obtain even the elements of book knowledge, except in Scot- 

 land, where primary education had the start of England by three 

 hundred years," 



Two pages further on he says : 



"One can hardly explain, on the assumption of race superiority 

 alone, the wonderful potentiality of the Scottish Lowlands, the 

 birthplace of so many who have been distinguished for personal 

 attainments, for the East Coast Englishman is the same blood as 

 the Lowlander, and the division between England and Scotland is 

 by no means an ethnological one ; it is, rather, a political division of 

 the old Kingdom of Northumberland." 



And yet Professor Haycraft denies the existence of use-inheri- 

 tance and attempts to explain this on the fortuitous nature of oppor- 

 tunities. Galton, who has made a special study of human heredity, 

 and who is perhaps the first person to deny use-inheritance, tells us 

 that when a man is born with tremendous intellectual power, the 

 lack of opportunities is nothing. He will make his opportunities. 



EDUCATION IN AMERICA. 



The same distinction that Professor Haycraft mentions between 

 Scotland and England has existed in the United States between the 

 North and South. When the Pilgrims landed on the inhospitable 

 coast of New England they immediately planted the "little red 

 school house," and never since have they failed to maintain it, nor 

 have they failed to supplement it with colleges and universities. In 



