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such education, as Doctor Luther 
Gulick has so often pointed out—is 
worth intrinsically more in any girl’s 
life than a year at college grinding over 
books and cramming for examinations. 
But need we abandon college for 
this? Why should we? Let the little 
leaven leaven the whol2 lump. Let our 
women’s colleges, if they insist on 
nunny, feminine isolation, at least 
afford a part time outlet to the deeper 
springs that lie in the nature of every 
normal girl. Let us have college babies 
—there are thousands waiting for adop- 
tion, or a temporary adoption during 
early infant-hood. Let us have pro- 
fessors who will bring their babies into 
the class room as well as their books. 
Let us have teachers who have come up 
to high standards of motherhood, as 
well as high standards of classic learning, 
to draw out the mind and spirit stuff of 
of Heredity 
young American womanhood. Let the 
women’s college campus be sprinkled 
with baby carriages, and those of the 
co-ed college, too. And not for ‘child 
study,” or the psychology of babies. 
Not for the learning process, not that 
coming mothers may know how to 
modify milk or pin a diaper; but that 
the finer feelings, the big and powerful 
affections shall be kept alive and 
wholesomely exercised, that the spon- 
taneous exuberance of childhood be 
kept, that we remember what we are 
in the world for, individuals to serve 
the race. That is the large lesson in 
preparedness for the duties and privi- 
leges and joy of tomorrow. This is the 
spirit of the real eugenics, or foresight 
and devotion for the children that 
are to be. This is the Gospel of baby 
Janet, lived out in the evergreen woods. 
A Champion of Darwinism 
SOCIAL PROGRESS AND THE DAR- 
WINIAN THEORY, a study of Force as a 
Factor in Human Relations. George Nas- 
myth, Ph.D. With an Introduction by 
Norman Angell. Pp. 417, $1.50 net. New 
York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916. 
That Dr. Nasmyth should have 
thought it worth while to write this 
book is striking evidence of the prestige 
which Darwin, after half a century, 
retains. The work is in effect a piece 
of propaganda for world federation, 
which the author declares is the logical 
outgrowth of the Darwinian and true 
view of social evolution. Because those 
who preach the ‘‘philosophy of force” 
attempt to justify themselves by citing 
Darwin and alleging the necessity and 
desirability of a struggle for survival 
among nations, Dr. Nasmyth (following 
the Russian Novikov) has undertaken 
to show that they wholly misunder- 
stand the Darwinian doctrines. It is 
not difficult for him to demonstrate 
this, and his chapter on ‘‘The Biological 
Errors” of the philosophy of force 
deserves wide circulation, for many 
biologists are prone to forget that the 
primary struggle for existence is against 
the environment of the species, and not 
against other members of the same 
species. Unfortunately, Dr. Nasmyth 
gives the impression that he thinks 
Darwin said the last word on the evolu- 
tion of man, and that nothing is neces- 
sary now but rightly to apprehend his 
views and act onthem. The sciences of 
eugeni¢ts and social psychology, how- 
ever, have made great strides since 
Darwin wrote ‘‘The Descent of Man,” 
and much of what Nasmyth seems to 
consider fundamenta! truth is now dis- 
carded dogma. Probably primitive Dar- 
winism is less harmful to society than 
the perversions which Nasmyth is 
attacking, and which wholly ignore the 
factor of mutual aid in evolution. 
Nevertheless the interests of science— 
which are identical with the interests of 
social progress—would be better guarded 
if the world-federation propagandists 
could take their stand on the biology of 
today, rather than on that which 
Darwin knew. Beyond this, the book 
is marked, like most sociological works, 
by lack of rigid definitions and by un- 
limited citations of other peoples’ opin- 
ions, instead of direct appeals to facts; 
but read with critical care, there is 
much in it that should prove stimulating 
and valuable to thoughtful people. 
