182 EVOLUTION 



for themselves and for each other? — in short, 

 that our modern Eugenics, latest-born even 

 among the evolutionary sciences, may yet 

 be among the very oldest; and that now 

 once more, at the opening of that new epoch 

 of world-consciousness and world-activity 

 which is involved no less thoroughly by the 

 evolution theory than was the passing in- 

 dustrial age by the advance of mechanical 

 science, the ancient evolutionary past is 

 being again reborn? 



