MISPLACED RELIANCE. 145 



tendency. There is no need to undertake the 

 apparently impossible task of demonstrating an 

 absolute negative. It will be enough to ask that 

 the Lamarckian factor of use-inheritance shall be 

 removed from the category of accredited factors of 

 evolution to that of unnecessary and improbable 

 hypotheses. The main explanation or source of 

 the fallacy may be found in the fact that natural 

 selection frequently imitates some of the more 

 obvious effects of use and disuse. 



MODERN RELIANCE ON USE-INHERITANCE 

 MISPLACED. 



Modern philanthropy so far at least as it ever 

 studies ultimate results constantly relies on this 

 ill-founded belief as its justification for ignoring 

 the warnings of^those who point out the ulti- 

 mately disastrous results of a systematic defiance 



or reversal of the great law of natural selection. 



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