CHAPTER XXX 



PROBABLE FUTURE ADVANCES IN HUMAN 



EVOLUTION 



To forecast the future is ever a thankless task. But the 

 physicists, the chemists, the astronomers, have reached a stage 

 in the knowledge and perfectioning of their sciences that makes 

 such possible. In botanical and zoological science also many 

 predicable combinations and results can be anticipated. 



By application of the laws of heredity, of environal action, 

 of organized reaction or proenvironal response, of selective 

 survival, and of the laws of reproduction we are more and 

 more becoming able to read into the future. In truth the 

 law of proenvironment, that has steadily guided all organisms 

 along well regulated pathways, represents a constant seeking 

 out by each organism or by each organ of it, toward a new 

 and future environment. It may therefore be a not unprofit- 

 able inquiry if we attempt — however imperfectly — to follow 

 in the train of Bellamy and other authors, not in the attitude 

 however of "looking backward," but in that of proenvironing 

 future pathways of evolutionary progress for superman, and 

 even for many races of mankind. For we have already dem- 

 onstrated that thus events, wholly in the future, and which 

 were advances over the combined "best" of the past and 

 present, have been worked up to and fulfilled. 



We would consider that all evidences point to the conclusion 

 that man and specially superman will increasingly break down 

 national barriers and will establish an international comity 

 and cooperation. The following causes amongst others will 

 more and more conduce toward such a result. 



(1) With each succeeding year increasing numbers of visitors 

 from one country make summer journeys to another, and so 

 are able to compare the industrial, the social, the moral, the 



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