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',ll selection has the merit of \H'\\\ 

 It is 1 fill nf lilllll.lll life and spills li.i blood. Yet 



nt'nrmity nl' tin- browbeaten imi(>\,,!ir \v!n leeretly muses 

 upon his L ' mm wholesome. It is superficial adap- 



tation often purchased at 1..- peel. The 



.d selection an- in im track nf blood, but in a trail of broken 

 sj)irits and t'rst.-riii'j hypncris\ . Happily the increasing ra'imi- 

 ah/.atinn .!' snrirlal sdc.-t inn I vcrcd a ivfin.-d iiistniiurnt 



of social order in tlic t'nnn <!' individnali/atimi ni' |)iinisliiMrnt. 

 liy this deviee tin- |>!-.^x U | V nf sncial ascciidaiir\ may !< d.-liralrly 

 adjusted, and -nn t'nnnity may In- sccnn-d \\ilh. .lit djin.L r rr nl' nn- 

 d'-niiinin^ the sclt'-rcsdin-cr and Belf-reBpecl <>f an <lVcndci-. Tin 1 

 din-r: to nl' idras lias liccn made iimn- tVn-imt l>y -ndi 



devices as parliamentary rnh's nl' pr dnrr. and ly tin- ma 



chiiu-ry nf the popular initiative and n-ferendum. 



des lieii. . annther merit nf snei-Mal selection is that 



jiiiek results -adaptation is relatively immediate. The 



young of one generation after aunt her ar.- readily molded to type. 



Knr this reasi.n. \\heu adaptatinn is at last attained it is more 



nearly adaptation to eontem|)orary ennditinns than can ever lie 



MM with adaptation jn-ndneed hy BOCia] ^electinn. In short, 

 the adaptation lap is less than that which follows s, M -ial selection. 

 But even the rational form of societal selection is at best only a 

 hit-or-mixx .-tVi.rt to snlve the proldeuis nf the social order. It 

 mii-t always remain larL"-ly the method of trial and error prac- 



cnlleetively and necessarily accompanied by considerable 

 waste. Viewed in evolutionary perspeetive its lastiiiir achieve- 

 ments are only those which natural selection workinir irroupwise 

 to confirm. M ' ibei a eoriou 



wliieh the Seri taboo a-jainst the killinp: nf smaller rodents has 



permitted their multiplication in such numbers that hundreds 



i, ire miles of territory round about Seriland have been 



y combed with their burrows. 4> A special consequence of 



.ibu is found in the fact that the myriad squirrel tunnels 



have r ! much of the territory impassable for horses and 



so Kci*cntccnlh Annual Report, Bureau of American I P;nt I. \- 



