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Hooker into "a jolly old Tory." 1 "Primogeni- 

 /ture," he says, "is dreadfully opposed to selec- 

 tion : suppose the first-born bull was necessarily 

 made by each farmer the begetter of his stock!" 

 Still, he admits that English peers have an ad- 

 vantage in the selection of "beautiful and charm- 

 ing women out of the lower ranks," and thus 

 get some benefit from the principle. In answer- 

 ing Mr. Galton's questions, Darwin describes 

 his own politics as " Liberal or Radical : " 2 and 

 this was in iS 73, by which time Radicalism 

 was no longer bound to out-and-out laissez 

 faire. 



Evolution, as applied to the whole of the 

 universe, means a great deal more than the 

 principle of natural selection. In the wider 

 sense it is professedly applied to the guidance 

 of life by Strauss in his famous book, The O ld 

 Faith and the New, where milit ary conq uest 

 and social inequalities are expressly defe nded 

 ;2k as r ight, because natura l ; and nothing but con- 

 tempt is reserved for those who venture to 

 hope for the abolition of war, who look beyond 

 the limits of the nation or who dream of a 



1 Life afid Letters, II. 385. 

 8 Lb. III. 178. 



