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scientifically acquainted with the causes, the treatment, and 

 the cure of diseases. Some students of genetics, eugenists 

 so-called, have recently inveighed against the aims and results 

 of such institutions. But humanity can well afford, in getting 

 rid of its wholesale competitive slaughter, to watch over and 

 to bear with the mentally or physically diseased, who often 

 owe their condition to competitive evils. They forget also 

 that from these institutions have come some of the most im- 

 portant scientific facts, that are slowly changing the entire 

 mode of treatment of crime, disease, and insanity. Socialized 

 humanity in the not distant future will largely free itself from 

 such results, by simply removing the causes which competi- 

 tion has strewn thick along the pathway of evolutionary pro- 

 gress. 



Seventh^ the international dissemination of scientific literature 

 alike along biotic, cognitic, cogitic, and spiritic lines has has- 

 tened socialistic advance to a remarkable degree. The bene- 

 fits have reached out to and influenced the humblest agri- 

 culturists, plant and animal breeders, artificers, manufacturers, 

 manual workers, and explorers of the world's raw wealth. 

 The countless inventions and discoveries that such literature 

 has dealt with indicate how prolific and rich is the present- 

 day human intellect, when given free scope to reach out along 

 the peaceful avenues of Science and Art. When one notes 

 further that the high mentality in the great army of such 

 workers has been furnished from the less influential and poorer 

 sections of civilized life, this is but proof of the contention 

 that the human hand-arm has been the potent lever in stim- 

 ulating to brain evolution and activity, and that the rich and 

 privileged ones are a dwindling factor. It is proof also that 

 a free and aspiring democracy has the brains to be trusted 

 with its own destinies. 



Eighth: Hygienic discoveries, hygienic laws, and the acceptance 

 of social hygiene may last of all be taken account of. These 

 all represent a growing cooperation of individual with indi- 

 vidual, of nation with nation, to ensure that the greatest good 

 of the largest number shall be promoted. So civilized man 



