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good seed growing. Though there still survive 

 " practical men" and self-styled utilitarians, 

 sneering at all things beyond their paleotechnic 

 disorder as " mere Utopia," the practical 

 Eutopians are already at work, and even 

 drafting, as here, their historic estimate of 

 the receding f utilitarians. 



Yet our term for the incipient order as 

 neotechnic is itself technic, as masculine labour 

 and thought must mostly be. Complemented 

 by feminine effort and inspiration, it becomes 

 eutechnic, expressing the inspiration of labour 

 by art and beauty. Our aims are not only 

 synthetic, as men-philosophers say, but 

 applied that is geoteclmie, as with practical 

 women, who, as the anthropologists confess, 

 had the first word in cultivation, and have 

 certainly the last word in home-making, as 

 all can see. This nascent order is seeking 

 to be eugenic, as the patriarchal Galton, 

 and his well-meaning under-shepherds of the 

 Eugenic Society would have it ; but mother- 

 hood, from its simplest to its divinest levels, 

 has ever discerned that the essential condition, 

 alike of the new young life and of its evoca- 

 tion, is to be eupsychic. 



Eutechnic, Geotechnie, Eupsychic is this 

 at length our view of progress ? So it 

 has long seemed to us, as men working and 

 thinking, from the substages of the paleo- 

 technic order to those of the neotechnic ; and 

 each in its way so far analysed and generalised. 

 Yes, yet no : one further connection is needed ; 

 for if these were all, the paleotect may say, 

 and not without an element of justice, that 

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