152 The Bible of Nature 



fectly to its environment, and in the higher forms 

 to adapt the environment to the organism. Surely 

 one legitimate deduction so obvious that many 

 miss it is just this, that the primary use of our 

 highly evolved nervous system is not to enable us 

 to construct philosophies, but to empower us to 

 adapt ourselves more perfectly to the inexorables, 

 "moulding the exile to his fate," and to empower 

 us to reach a greater mastery of Nature, to enter 

 into our Kingdom, and to win a firmer control of 

 life. We are all too apt to take an unnecessarily 

 academic view of our destiny. 



What do we mean by " entering into our King- 

 dom"? We mean that, having gone so far, we 

 must go further in our mastery of natural powers, 

 in our utilization of natural resources, in our revolt 

 against natural selection. Eutopias we want, a 

 replacing of slums by garden cities, a sweeping 

 away of the disfigurements with which we have 

 half-spoiled beautiful places, landscape-gardening 

 on a large scale, instead of the accumulation of ash- 

 heaps. Eutechnics we want, healthful, pleasur- 

 able function well distributed, and an ending to 

 occupations which mean miserable lives and un- 

 timely deaths. Eugenics we want, an improve- 

 ment of the human breed, an active pride of 

 race, an enlightened conscience as to marrying 

 and having children, and a more evolutionary 

 education. How much more we want and must 



