338 PROBLEMS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 



how among birds and the higher mammals it is able to raise a 

 number of individuals above the minimum standard exacted by 

 the environment. 



All this may be chimerical. At the present time it certainly 

 is. But, as the evil increases, it will gradually come to be less 

 so. In any case, there is no force but that of morality and 

 religion to resist the on-coming evil. 



