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tribes, and thus ultimately of civilized societies 

 above all, therefore, of the city. Huxley's 

 tragic vision of " nature as a gladiatorial 

 show," and consequently of ethical life and 

 progress as merely superposed by man, as 

 therefore an interference with the normal 

 order of Nature, is still far too dominant 

 among us. It threatens even to-day to con- 

 fuse the nascent science, and still more to 

 wreck the incipient art, of Eugenics, in fact 

 to encourage and defend that massacre of 

 the innocents which is expressed in the death- 

 rate of every community; and to extend this 

 to a corresponding view of legislation and 

 government. Here, in fact, is opening the 

 greatest practical controversy of our science, 

 in comparison to which all others have been 

 but academic that ultimately between the 

 Herodian and the Magian view and treatment 

 of the child, and between essential renewals 

 of the Caesarist and of the Christian ideals 

 of the community, upon our modern spiral. 

 Yet since this is a modern spiral, we must 

 harmonize this controversy ; we must seek 

 the due correlation of the ideals of organic 

 and of psychic selection. For this we need 

 above all some clearer vision of the ideals of 

 evolution Olympian for the body, Parnassian 

 for the spirit, and even more in fact, an 



