34 THE METHODS AND 



sanction, a relic of the ferocious inventions of 

 the savage. Well may such justice be por- 

 trayed as blind. Who shall say whether it is 

 crime or punishment which has wrought the 

 greater suffering in the world ? We may live 

 to know that to the keen satirical vision of Sam 

 Butler on the pleasant mountains of Erewhon 

 there was revealed a dispensation, not kinder 

 only, but wiser than the temfic code which 

 Moses delivered from the flames of Sinai. 



If there are societies which refuse to apply 

 the new knowledge, the fault will not lie with 

 Genetics. I think it needs but little observa- 

 tion of the newer civilisations to foresee that 

 they will apply every scrap of scientific know- 

 ledge which can help them, or seems to 

 help them in the struggle, and I am good 

 enough Selectionist to know that in that day 

 the fate of the recalcitrant communities is 

 sealed. 



The thrill of discovery is not dulled 



