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colleges, the academies, the high schools and even the 

 graded and country schools. The assumption of these 

 men that the whole interest of biological science is in 

 natural evolution is more than stupid, economically it 

 is doing a downright wrong to the world. It is not 

 merely shooting over the people's heads with what is 

 wrongly assumed to be higher education ; it is actually 

 leading to the theory that natural evolution is educa- 

 tionally now and henceforth the larger of the two parts 

 of this question. Instead of natural evolution being 

 the mam interest, we can now assume that Darwin's 

 theory is proved and proceed to make use of the laws 

 and possibilities he leads us to. 



The scientists and the practical breeders have been 

 far apart in their methods, in their theories and in their 

 interests. We have had few scientists who were 

 studying the business problems, the everyday work of 

 breeding. On the other hand, we have had very few 

 breeders who were deeply interested in the underlying 

 science of enforced evolution. Once scientists come 

 fully to realize that the science of enforced evolution 

 is the most fertile field for scientific exploitation now 

 open they will be eager to cultivate it. 



The methods of research used in studying natural 

 evolution cannot be generally adopted. New methods 

 must be devised. The crucible, the scalpel, the stain- 

 ing fluid and the microscope will be relatively less 

 prominent. Animals and plants may be studied in 

 embryo. The study of the cell, called cytology, may be 

 highly developed and may give us some facts and some 

 methods of thought. But a dozen years' effort, at 

 theoretical experimenting with paints leads me to say 

 advisedly that the facts, the theories and the best busi- 

 ness principles for enforcing evolution will be^wrought 

 out mainly by studying mature individuals. These 

 studies must be broad, statistical, vast numbers must 

 be employed and long periods of time must be con- 

 sumed. The sometimes rapidly reached results of the 

 physicist, of the chemist or even of the classifier of 



