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the great westward flow of the Aryan race. Both 

 politicians and philanthropists will probably be in- 

 duced to modify their aims and methods when the 

 principles of evolution are fully understood. 



As to marriage, there is no evidence that mere 

 affection can ever be a sufficiently enduring bond 

 between the sexes to safeguard the interests of 

 the offspring. Although in exceptional cases the 

 play of the elective affinities may be trusted to bring 

 about lasting unions, the general attraction of the 

 sexes for each other is such that unions of affection 

 will always be liable to be lightly formed and as 

 lightly broken. The qualities that attract a man or 

 a woman in one of the opposite sex are frequently 

 such as exist in a thousand men or women in the 

 same community. What guarantee of stability, then, 

 would an ordinary love union possess ? If the legal 

 bond ever became subordinate to or dependent upon 

 the bond of affection, we should practically be revert- 

 ing to the primitive conditions of communal marriage 

 from which our ancestors long ago emerged. 



But if monogamy is likely to remain unchanged in 

 its main features, so long as the State is unprepared to 

 take parental charge of the children born within its 

 borders, there are many minor modifications of the 



