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an advantage over others, but it adds nothing 

 to the clear thinking of the race. Thought is 

 what it is because of qualities men inherit, and 

 will improve only as heredity is modified. 



Education has, therefore, little place among 

 natural characters. It has, however, an increas- 

 ing place among those that are acquired, since 

 the wills of men and the thought of women 

 increasingly need education. The higher level 

 of equality can thus be reached by both sexes : 

 every one needs all the qualities of the race, 

 and his education ought to supplement the 

 natural qualities that heredity has given. 



Education is the strengthening of weak 

 characters those that heredity tends to 

 dwarf by the very differentiation which acting 

 upon other characters renders them strong, 

 natural and more advantageously inherited. 

 Conscious processes must be directed toward 

 the weak side of human nature, to round the 

 character so that in each individual all parts 

 are strong. Education cannot improve on nat- 

 ural characters. Progress is the development 

 of the strong, not where they are strong, but 

 where they are weak. The strength of the 



