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scious growth toward social equality. The 

 qualities that by natural progress have come 

 to men must be given by them to women, and 

 those that nature has given to women must be 

 instilled into men. And every class must give 

 its strength and characters to other classes and 

 each race its neighbors. Then a new surplus 

 will appear and a new group of natural quali- 

 ties will be developed in each sex, race, and 

 class. The weakening of the basis of acquired 

 characters will create a constantly enlarging 

 deficit ; but, on the other hand, the increasing 

 strength of the natural characters can bear this 

 burden with greater ease. 



If progress is by differentiation, the scheme 

 of reform is not the one we should use if prog- 

 ress were by addition. In addition the new 

 quality in the strong needs nurturing, and the 

 weak must be eliminated, for their absence is 

 no loss, but rather a gain to society. But if 

 progress is by differentiation, the weak and the 

 strong arise together, and both are indices of 

 progress. The natural character is strong, and 

 for its development no attention is necessary : 

 its complement, the acquired character, is weak, 



