In Peace 



eion. By training the force of the in- 

 dividual man is increased. Education 

 gives^him access to the accumulated 

 stores of wisdom built up from the ex- 

 perience 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 

 carries with it possibilities for effective- 

 ness. Training makes these possibili- 

 ties actual. Civilization has been de- 

 fined as " the sum total of those agen- 

 cies and conditions by which a race may 

 advance independently of heredity." 

 But while education and civilization 

 may greatly change the life of individ- 

 uals, and through them that of the 

 nation, these influences are spent on the 

 individual and the social system of 

 which he is a part. So far as science 

 knows, education and training play no 

 part in heredity. The change in the 

 blood which is the essence of race- 



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