1 68 Determinate Variation and Selection 



Selection ' should be used, as he used it, with reference 

 only to securing results by induced mating (his * Methodi- 

 cal ' as opposed to his * Unconscious ' Selection). 



10, 11, 12. In all the different sorts of 'selection/ consid- 

 ered as factors in progress from generation to generation, in 

 wJiicJt tJie laivs of natural selection and physical reproduc- 

 tion do not operate together, it seems extremely desirable 

 that we qualify the word ' selection ' carefully, giving to 

 each case a name which shall apply to it alone. The cases 

 of the preservation of individuals and groups by reason of 

 their social endowments do illustrate natural selection with 

 physical reproduction, and 'Social Selection' (10) is pro- 

 posed for that. In the instances in which either physical 

 heredity is not operative (12), or in which it is not the 

 only means of transmission (u), we cannot secure clear- 

 ness without new terms ; for these two cases ' Social 

 Suppression' (11) and 'Social Generalization' (12) are 

 suggested. The phrase 'Imitative Selection' is given in 

 the table alternately for the latter (12), seeing that the 

 discussions of the topic usually employ the term ' Selec- 

 tion ' and use (wrongly) the ' Natural Selection ' analogy. 

 Selection may be used also when there is no reference to 

 race-progress (and so no danger of the misuse of the bio- 

 logical analogy), since it then means presumably the 

 ' conscious choice ' of psychology and of pre-Darwinian 

 theory. 



3. Isolation and Selection^- 



Professor Hutton protests against the use of the term 

 ' Selection ' in certain cases, saying : ' Selection means the 

 act of picking out certain objects from a number of others, 



1 From Science, May 6, 1898, commenting on an article by Professor 

 W. H. Hutton, in the same journal for April 22, 1898. 



