992 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



openness to all, their present legitimate and needed insistence on 

 the very real importance of organic and psychic Heredity cannot 

 but appear unduly stressed. Is it not thus that eugenists fall short 

 of evoking the social attention they justly desire, and the social 

 response which their good counsels deserve? It is thus a most 

 regrettable fact that eugenic teachings — so far as specialised upon 

 family Heredity, without correspondingly expressed appreciation 

 of the common social Heritage, to which good heredity so widely 

 opens— have too often come to seem reactionary, to great masses 

 of the public they appeal to, and even to their leaders as well. For 

 these, especially for the past century and a half, have been increas- 

 ingly aspiring to enter more and more fully into the Social Heritage, 

 to advance its progress and to abate its associated burdens. And this 

 the more since not a few of these burdens have undeniably been in 

 the past — and sometimes stiU too much are — associated with a 

 (pre-bioTogical, insufficiently eugenic, and thus excessive) stress 

 upon Heredity, and this towards too much monopolising of the 

 Heritage. 



In short then, the progress both of biological and social science 

 is delayed, and still more that of their social applications, until their 

 respective cultivators more definitely combine. Combine in what? 

 In the co-adjustment of (i) the fundamental truths and counsels of 

 biological Heredity — with its insistence — ^which every intelligent and 

 open social mind must come to recognise and utilise — on the impor- 

 tance of good stock, and even of lives made and kept as pure and 

 strong as may be — with (2) the supreme social truth and insistence 

 of sociology for the Social Heritage; and this with resulting recogni- 

 tion of its progress — ^understood as essentially a matter of acquired 

 characters, accumulated and transmitted, in, by, and for the ever- 

 widening community, and thus as far as may be above, beyond, 

 and irrespective of any and all limitations or advantages of breed 

 and birth. 



As such harmony — ^not simply of aristocracy and democracy, 

 but say rather of Aristogeny and Demogeny (ontogeny and phylo- 

 geny, too) — gets more clearly on its way, the legitimate materialisms 

 of biology — as for eugenics, and for euthenics as well, i.e. its due 

 insistence on nature and nurture together, each for all they can 

 yield — can no longer seem discordant or indifferent to the people, 

 with their ever-widening social aspirations. It is now full time for 

 both vitally to unite, and towards freshened and fertile development, 

 both of Society and its Individuals; and these seen, and self-realised, 

 as veritably each a "socius", and all as Socians. In sach fully evolu- 

 tionar}'' development of race and its members together in fruitful 

 interaction, we cannot but foresee — and with increasing acceleration 

 — the long-dreamed and often-striven-for coming of the Kingdom of 

 Life on earth as it may be discerned in the ideal. For the reunited 



