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would have them, at the cost of the welfare of 

 mankind. 



Mr. Kidd also sees that the movement for political 

 equality has nearly come to an end, for its purpose 

 has been nearly achieved. To it must now succeed 

 a movement to bring all people into the rivalry of 

 life on equal conditions of social opportunity. This 

 is a very important point, and he deserves the ut- 

 most credit for bringing it out. It is the great cen- 

 tral feature in the development of our time, and 

 Mr. Kidd has seen it so clearly and presented it so 

 forcibly that we can not but regret that he should 

 be so befogged in other portions of his argument. 



Mr. Kidd has our cordial sympathy when he lays 

 stress on the fact that our evolution can not be called 

 primarily intellectual. Of course there must be an 

 intellectual evolution, too, and Mr. Kidd perhaps 

 fails in not making this sufficiently plain. A per- 

 fectly stupid race can never rise to a very high plane ; 

 the negro, for instance, has been kept down as much 

 by lack of intellectual development as by anything 

 else; but the prime factor in the preservation of a 

 race is its power to attain a high degree of social 

 efficiency. Love of order, ability to fight well and 

 breed well, capacity to subordinate the interests of 

 the individual to the interests of the community, 

 these and similar rather humdrum qualities go to 

 make up the sum of social efficiency. The race that 

 has them is sure to overturn the race whose mem- 

 bers have brilliant intellects, but who are cold and 

 selfish and timid, who do not breed well or fight 



