Heredity and Social Progress 



strength. The opposite differentiation by becoming dwarfed 

 loses its natural support. It is kept active only by conscious 

 attention. 



3. Reform should therefore be directed toward helping 

 the weak. The blocks to progress lie in the aggressions 

 of the strong which prevent the weak from getting in the 

 current of differentiation which evokes natural characters. 

 A backward race does not have to be made over to fit it for 

 civilization. Most of the desired changes will come spon- 

 taneously if the initial evils are removed. 



4. The strong inherit the natural changes of advantage to 

 men, but the weak grow weaker through these changes and 

 must receive more aid from the strong in order to restore 

 the equality. In this equality common emotions and a 

 social surplus in which all participate are necessary. The 

 emotions cut all down to a common starting-point, and the 

 surplus creates similar growth in all. Emotional changes 

 will act on any class which has the surplus upon which 

 growth and regeneration depend. 



5. There can be no progress without an acquired equality. 

 Each race and class should in turn impress its natural char- 

 acters on those who lack them. When this is done, new 

 differentiations bring new natural characters, and in the 

 adjustment which follows a surplus arises that may be used 

 to find a new equality by means of developing acquired 

 characters in the weak. 



6. Genius is a differentiation, not an addition to the pow- 

 ers of men. The mediocre are the undifferentiated. They 

 must be transformed by emotions that cut back and regen- 

 erate, but do not destroy. Every person can be acted upon 

 by the emotional forces which mould character. Reform 

 merely sets these forces in action and lets the development 



