146 FOOT-NOTES TO EVOLUTION. 



Race types thus arise from the " survival of the ex- 

 isting," its best results modified and preserved by the 

 "survival of the fittest." Actual pres- 

 Race types and ^^^^^ -^^ ^ country of certain ancestral 

 the survival of , . , . , „, . , 



,, . . stocks IS the first element. 1 heir char- 



tne existing. 



acters become workable, durable, and at 

 last " ineradicable " by the survival of those in whom 

 those characters are elements of life. An " unwork- 

 able " heredity destroys its possessor, and with him the 

 line of possible descent. 



