Man in the Light of Evolution 



realization of the vision are not for them. They 

 can make only a small attainment and slight 

 contribution not unmixed with evil. Their chief 

 reward is the strength and joy which spring 

 from struggle. Conscious of their powers they 

 know well the rewards which they are letting 

 slip though within easy reach. They know and 

 feel the strength of these temptations. The fit- 

 test must be men and women of unconquerable 

 purpose and iron will. Behind this purpose and 

 will there must be deep and intense feeling born 

 of attention, thought, and long study, mingled 

 with broad sympathy and strong scientific, con- 

 structive imagination. 



The fittest have been well described in the 

 closing words of Professor Huxley's remarkable 

 lecture on Evolution and Ethics. 



" We have long since emerged from the 

 heroic childhood of our race, when good and evil 

 could be met with the same ' frolic welcome ' ; 

 the attempts to escape from evil, whether Indian 

 or Greek, have ended in flight from the battle- 

 field; it remains to us to throw aside the youth- 

 ful overconfidence and the no less youthful dis- 

 couragement of nonage. We are grov/n men, 

 and must play the man 



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