642 MAN AS A CONQUEROR 



From whose name I bear ; themselves the heirs 

 Of time, and race, through every bygone age 



Of man. And I am not myself, but theirs 

 Who so devised this jumbled heritage. 



" Yet I thank God, and thank Him with a song, 



That He gave me a will that is my own, 

 And made me free to choose the right and wrong, 



And fight and fashion life as I shall choose. 

 And with this gift I sigh for no man's shoes. 



Nor envy any king upon his throne. 

 So fare I forth intent at least to be 



Master, not slave, of my strange legacy." ' 



Finally, the possibility of eugenic control, or changing the hereditary 

 stream, arises only when a mate is chosen with whose germplasm our 

 own may be combined. This is shuffling the cards and dealing a new 

 hand. It is the task of eugenics to see that it is intelligently done. 



"Eugenics indicates a new method of striving for human welfare which, 

 if combined with an equal striving for improvements in human surroundings, 

 more truly justifies a hopeful outlook than any other which has yet been 

 tried in the whole history of the world." ^ 



The prospect for the next million years would be bright indeed if 

 everyone heeded the eugenic golden rule, that is, Do unto your 



DESCENDANTS AS YOU WOULD HAVE HAD YOUR ANCESTORS DO UNTO 

 YOU. 



SUGGESTED READINGS 



Darwin, L., What Is Eugenics? Galton Pub. Co., 1929. 



A popular exposition by the Honorary President of the International 



Federation of Eugenic Organizations. 

 Holmes, S. J., Human Genetics and Its Social Import, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 



1936. 



The newest of several books this biologist has written upon eugenics. 

 Huntington, E., Tomorrow's Children, John Wiley & Sons, 1935. 



Questions and answers concerning eugenics. 



'WUliam Woodford Rock in the Christian Century, May 7, 1925. By permission of the pub- 

 lishers. 



2 From Leonard Darwin, Eugenic Reform. By permission of D. Appleton & Company, pub- 

 lishers. 



