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cer : " The law that each creature shall take the benefits 

 and the evils of its own nature has been the law under 

 which life has evolved thus far. Any arrangements 

 which, in a considerable degree, prevent superiority 

 from profiting by the rewards of superiority, or shield 

 inferiority from the evils it entails — any arrangements 

 which tend to make it as well to be inferior as to be 

 superior, are arrangements diametrically opposed to the 

 progress of organisation and the reaching of a higher 

 life." 



What is to be done ? (a) In face of this dilemma 

 some say : *' Interfere less with life-saving devices." 

 '* The undesirables have made their bed, let them lie 

 on it." And probably some people are, what they are 

 often told they are, " too kind." It is difficult to be 

 enthusiastic about the marriage of deaf-mutes, and the 

 evils of indiscriminate charity are well known. Yet 

 we are solidary with our whole society and more or less 

 responsible ; we cannot reverse our tactics ; we cannot 

 outrage social sentiment. The order of the day is : 

 Save life wherever possible. Moreover, as w^e have 

 seen, not a few of man's interferences are with indis- 

 criminate thinning, which is not sifting, with agencies 

 like typhoid which remove the fit as well as the unfit. 

 On the other hand, there is good common-sense in the 

 advice that coddling of the waster may mean cruelty 

 to the worthy. 



(6) Another suggestion is made by men of sterner 

 stuff, who advise nipping diseased buds and pruning 

 off deleterious twigs — a scientifically conducted infan 



