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but what then ? When you are carrying out 

 Mendelian experiments on peas, you can enclose 

 your flowers in muslin bags and prevent anything 

 interfering with your observations. And in the 

 stud-farm you can keep the occupants shut up. 



But what are you going to do with Jack ? and 

 with Jill ? And still more with Joan ? They 

 cannot be permanently isolated, neither are they 

 restrained by any " mythical ideas of sin." They 

 have been educated to the idea that their highest 

 duty is to enjoy themselves. Why should they 

 not do what they like ? And consequently, as 

 any reasoning person can see, " The Inevitable " 

 must happen ; and where is your experiment and 

 where the Coming Race ? It is perfectly useless 

 for doctrinaires to argue, as doctrinaires will, 

 about ethical restraints. Nature has no ethical 

 restraints ; and any ethical restraints which man 

 has come from that higher nature of his which he 

 does not share with the lower creation. What 

 those whom the late Mr. Devas so aptly called 

 " after-Christians " always forget is that the 

 humane, the Christian side of life, which they as 

 well as others exhibit, is due to the influence, 

 lingering if you like, of Christianity. They ignore 

 or forget the pit out of which they were digged. 



By another Eugenist we are told that willy- 

 nilly every sound, healthy person of either sex 

 must get married or at least betake him or her- 

 self to the business of propagating the race. 

 That at least is the essence of his singularly 

 offensive dictum that since the celibacy of the 

 Catholic clergy and of members of Religious 



