comes mainly through selection, natural or 

 artificial, the survival of the fittest to be- 

 come the parent of the new generation. In 

 the world of man similar causes produce 

 similar results. The word "progress" is, 

 however, used with a double meaning, in- 

 cluding the advance of civilization as well 

 as race improvement. The first of these 

 meanings is entirely distinct from the other. 

 The results of training and education lie 

 outside the scope of the present discussion. 

 By training the force of the individual man 

 is increased. Education gives him access to 

 the accumulated stores of wisdom built up 

 from the experience of ages. The trained 

 man is placed in a class relatively higher 

 than the one to which he would belong on 

 the score of heredity alone. Heredity car- 

 ries with it possibilities for effectiveness. 

 Training makes these possibilities actual. 

 Civilization has been defined as "the sum 

 total of those agencies and conditions by 

 which a race may advance independently of 

 heredity." But while education and civili- 

 zation may greatly change the life of indi- 

 viduals, and through them that of the nation. 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



Meaning 

 of prog- 

 ress 



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