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and so on? College class organisations by years are already familiar; 

 county and clan societies abound, and more. Such new organisations 

 acquire solidarity in many and increasing ways through their 

 periodic meetings and outings, and thus sometimes with incidental 

 advantage, towards survival of fit pairs, and families accordingly. 



Are we here becoming "Utopian"? Better mating, better breeding, 

 better homing (still too little considered in "the housing problem", 

 albeit developing, as in garden villages at their best) — these are all 

 Uropian, since progressively realisable, and thus Eutopian in very 

 deed. 



Such furtherance needs more definite emotional urge ; for on this, 

 action not only, but science too, deeply depends. Where shall we 

 find this? It is all around us, in current literature, in the novel- 

 writing and story-telling which head reading lists, and with poetry 

 coming forward anew. Little of this is clearly eugenic: yet how 

 much, indeed wellnigh all, eugamic? Young lovers must first find 

 each other, and get over their difiiculties of mating before the 

 family question can be much realised; and every novelist brings 

 them through these crises. So must the eugenist freshens his present 

 reading, his observing, his advising, by the impulse of romance, of 

 drama, and of poesy, each at its sympathetic best. Eugenics will 

 thus advance in insight and knowledge, and find the widening 

 consideration and influence it still lacks, through beginning anew 

 with eugamics. "Tis Love that makes the world go round!" 



Recall for a moment the potent historic significance of Jean 

 Jacques Rousseau, above all as main inspirer of modem individual- 

 ism, with its freedom and democracy. And this not only as intel- 

 lectual ferment of his time in France, and even in America, to its 

 Declaration of Independence; and thus for the French Revolution, 

 and thenceforward for the later reductions of the old aristocratic 

 order over continental countries and in Britain as well. The great 

 impulse to educational freedom given by his Emile has likewise 

 continued to bear fruit. But next ask why he tore each of his five 

 children from their unhappy mother as they came, and pushed them 

 out of sight for ever into the revolving box of the Foundling Hos- 

 pital, where presumably most (or all) died. This his biographers 

 record with regret, and as the worst stain upon the deeply blemished 

 character and career he himself for other matters so frankly con- 

 fesses. But do they not miss the real interpretation — that of the 

 ruthless logic of the prophet of progress through individual freedom, 

 in thus oftering up the extremest imaginable sacrifice, that of his 

 own flesh and blood; so expressing, as fanatics of earlier faiths have 

 done for their beliefs, and in no less terrific and symbolic rite, that 

 would-be liberating evangel, of Individualism to the uttermost, of 

 which he was the culminating exponent, and to applications un- 

 dreamed before, even in his old home-city and republic of Geneva. 



