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the principle of selection seizes upon it because it finds 

 that it aids in the struggle for existence), there is nothing 

 to insure its acceptance by the oncoming generations. 

 In the long run it runs up against human nature, 

 i.e., the basic passion of covetousness, which proves too 

 strong for its fine-spun theories of equal rights. Not 

 until a change is made in the ideals of the individual 

 men who go to make up a community can you look 

 for even the remote possibility of success in realizing 

 man's evolutionary ideal of justice. It would seem to 

 be iEsop's fable of the wind, the sun, and the traveler, 

 over again. The blustering wind of violence cannot 

 induce the traveler to remove his cloak. He will only 

 button it up the more closely about him. But the sun 

 of love, genial in its warmth and kindliness, will con- 

 strain him of itself to lay aside his cloak as something 

 superfluous and excessive, as something which he 

 really does not need. 



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But, it may be finally objected. What is to become of 

 the principle of selection once this ideal of a common 

 humanity is attained? If the law of universal love, 

 guided by reason, is to prevail, what will become of the 

 struggle for existence which seems indispensable to 

 produce the best and highest type of race perfection.? 

 You need never fear, even when man has attained his 

 highest ideal, that he will ever escape from the law of 

 the struggle for existence. Most of man's enemies will 

 apparently always be with him. Advancing knowledge 



