CIVILIZATION AND THE RACE. 77 



It is obvious, then, that evolution during the period 

 of anthropogenesis consisted in an advance of the type of 

 man, while at present the type is more stationary during 

 the advance of civilization which moves forward with an 

 increasingly rapid acceleration. 



While it may be granted that civilization no longer 

 eliminates the unfit in wholesale exterminations, it can 

 not be said to mean a discontinuance of the further ad- 

 vance of the race, but the modus operandi is less drastic 

 and therefore perhaps slower. While the unfit are pre- 

 served (or rather, while the elimination of the unfit has 

 been considerably reduced) those individuals who repre- 

 sent a superior type are rendered conspicious by the ac- 

 quisition of power, money, distinction, or fame. There 

 are certain aristocracies forming, commercial, political, 

 industrial, scientific, artistic, social and otherwise, and 

 prominence within the several spheres of human activity, 

 is partly a positive advantage, a means of survival, partly 

 a stimulus to progress. Thus the process of evolution is 

 not stopped but only modified, and though the fierceness 

 of the struggle is abating the pace of advance is by no 

 means checked. The main difference between the present 

 and the age of anthropogenesis is mainly this, that primi- 

 tive man struggled for survival, for bare existence, while 

 now the premium of the victor is success in life, promi- 

 nence, wealth, or fame. 



