AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



inherent in human nature and that human 

 nature does not change, are not taking 

 into account the biologist s certain knowl 

 edge that human nature does change. 

 The educator or prison reformer who 

 claims that you can do anything with any 

 man by education and environment does 

 not take into account the biologist s 

 knowledge of the unescapable influence on 

 human fate of inherited traits. He 

 knows that it is perfectly true that you 

 cannot put a thousand dollar education 

 into a fifty dollar boy. But well meaning 

 people keep trying to do this all the time. 

 We have, then, to face, in our further 

 consideration of human life from the 

 point of view of the biologist, two rather 

 sharply contrasted things. One thing 

 is that the biologist does have a certain 

 positive knowledge of some conditions 

 or factors that do help to determine the 

 course of human life. The other thing 

 is that the course of human life is partly 

 determined by a set of conditions which 

 are, so far at least, quite outside the 

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