HUMAN LIFE 



trasted with the biological inheritance 

 which is all the inheritance that other 

 animal species have, a social inheritance 

 which gives him the present realities and 

 the future possibilities of a social evolu 

 tion in addition to his more personal 

 evolution, has in his own hands a great 

 instrument for determining the fate of 

 himself as species; the future of mankind. 

 This, of course, is what the preacher and 

 the poet have always said about man, 

 though on a basis of other conceptions as 

 to how man has been given this power. 

 But whatever the foundations for the 

 agreement between scientist and preacher 

 in their common conclusion, the interest 

 ing and important thing is that they do 

 agree and hence that they can reinforce 

 each other in appealing to man con 

 sciously to direct his efforts, with all his 

 advantage of scientific knowledge and all 

 his strength of belief, to the production 

 of a higher, a socially and morally higher, 

 future man type. 



Thus these discussions of &quot;human life 

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