2 DARWINISM AND POLITICS. 



rational methods there is no denial of the 

 scientific truth of evolution, and there is an 

 application of the principle on which Strauss 

 himself insists so strongly, that " man must not 

 merely be an animal repeated, but must be 

 something more, something better." 



(2) The claim of women to an equal share 

 with men in the advantages and responsibilities 

 of education and citizenship is very freque ntly 

 met by the objection that to grant this claim is 

 to fly in the face of nature . And the objection, 

 when it comes from the evolutionist, has a 

 certain plausibility. He points out, perhaps, 

 how advance in organic life oes alons: with in- 

 creasing differentiation of sex a rash assertion 

 n biology, but I have heard it made by a biolo- 

 gist. And so, it is asked, are not the advocates 

 of women's rights trying to reverse all that, and 

 to produce a morally asexual being ? Again, 

 if we limit ourselves to human society, it is 

 urged that " the difference between the sexes, 

 as regards the cranial cavity, increases with the 

 development of the race, so that the male 

 European excels much more the female, than 

 the negro the negress " (quoted from Vogt by 

 Darwin, Descent of Man, p. 566 11.; but it is 



