AND ITS SELF-CONSEKVATION. 285 



other races seem to have scarcely emerged even yet from 

 their "primitive" condition. From which it would seem 

 to be easy to account for the otherwise startling simian 

 marks which some of the races still exhibit. It may also 

 be remarked, finally, that upon the hypothesis here indi- 

 cated it would seem that Malthus failed to seize the true, 

 perspective of history. The multiplicity of ancestry, 

 the fact that the higher the type of organism the less 

 prolific its members, the further fact that Nature's pro- 

 ductivity in vegetation is largely in direct ratio of the 

 degree of man's intelligence in cultivating the soil all 

 this seems to indicate that the " Malthusian law " is a 

 vanishing aspect of history and not a permanent phase.* 



* Compare Mr. Spencer's "Principles of Biology," concluding chapter. 



