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and broad and deep as life itself. Not only do the internal 

 secretions open up before us the great hope — that Life at last 

 will cease to stumble and grope and blunder, manacled by the 

 iron chains of inexorable cause and effect. They provide tools, 

 concrete and measurable, that can be handled and moved, weighed 

 and seen, for the management of the problems of human nature 

 and evolution. 



Every department of human life, the questions of labor and 

 industry, science and art, education, puericulture, international 

 problems, crime and disease, may be illuminated. War and Sex, 

 those two master interests of mankind, may be understood and 

 handled sympathetically as they have never before. The reac- 

 tions of man alone, and man in the crowd, will be clarified. The 

 red thread of individuality which runs through the woof and 

 warp of all human affairs will be unraveled. 



Inevitably, customs, morals, codes of procedure and practice, 

 institutions, all those expressions of opinion which make conduct, 

 all the currents which contrive the infinite variety of life, will be 

 transmitted into another set of values. 



A remoulding, a remodeling will take place all along the line. 

 Manifestly an unstable thymocentric should not be treated as a 

 criminal, but treated in a sanitarium. A masculinoid woman 

 needs satisfactions not vouchsafed in the old "love, honor and 

 obey" home. How absurd it is to found codes of morality upon 

 sermons or even the latest psychologies. During the nineteenth 

 century progress in physics and mechanics overturned traditions 

 thousands of years had painfully toiled to erect. What is to 

 happen when man comes at last to experiment upon himself like 

 a god, dealing not only with the materials without, but also with 



cry constituents of his innermost being? Will he not 

 indeed become a god? If he does not destroy himself before, 

 that is surely his destiny. For better or for worse, we possess 

 now in the endocrines new instruments for BWaying the indi- 

 vidual as individual, and as related to other individuals, as a 

 member of a type, family, nation, BIX 1 ^enus. 



The Basis of Variation 



The sense of likeness and the sense of unlikenc a de- 



cisive rule in the diun dule of the individual His sense 



of resemblance to ! ad moth in and elan, i 



him and them off aga cosmos as an alliance of defense 



