BOOK REVIEW 269 



Beyond War, a chapter in the Natural History of Man. by Vernon 

 L. Kellogg, 172 pages, Henry Holt & Co., New York, price $1.00. 



This little book is a demonstration of the thesis that man in the 

 course of his evolution must go on to a stage beyond war. The 

 final words of the book are as follows: "And Man has a uniform 

 motion in a straight line toward an evolutionary goal, of which 

 War is an absolutely impossible part. The motion of Man is 

 toward mutual aid, altruism. War is all that these are not. 

 These are life conditions that oppose all War. The inertia of the 

 evolutionary movement of Man will overcome the inertia of the 

 lessening resistance to this movement. War is already an ana- 

 chronism in the life of Homo sapiens. The evolutionary mode of 

 the Blond race has moved beyond it. The leaders will fall into the 

 mode or fall out of their places. Homo superioris will be, whatever 

 else he is, Beyond War.'' 



The book commends itself to all readers whether they agree with 

 its conclusion or not, because it is a splendid statement of the 

 evolution theory, especially as it applies to man. It traces his his- 

 tory from the earliest beginnings up through man of the Great Ice 

 Age, the later man who used the polished stone tools, and then the 

 metal instruments, and finally up to the man of dim h^'storic times. 

 Moreover, it is with a distinct Neo-Lamarckian tendency it is 

 written the author believing that many of the changes in man's 

 physical structure are induced by the influence of his changing 

 environment. 



Plant and Animal Children and How They Grow. Ellen Torelle, 

 D. C. Heath & Company. $.50. 



In this book the author has expressed in simple language the 

 essential facts and principles of growth in plant and animal life. 

 Its appearance is timely owing to the need for a text of this nature. 

 At the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene, recently 

 held in Buffalo, scientists and educators agreed that the time had 

 come when the attitude of the world's educational institutions 

 toward sex hygiene should be revolutionized. This matter has 

 been a subject of discussion in various educational and sociological 

 gatherings for some time past and the opinion has steadily been 

 strengthening that boys and girls in elementary grades should 

 receive careful instruction in the hygiene of the human body. 



