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ment, says the biologist, and the species will 

 be transformed. Change the economic envir- 

 onment, says the Socialist, and, if you make 

 the right change, the race will be redeemed. 

 Both statements rest on the same fundamental 

 laws. 



As the many and highly important implica- 

 tions of this theory, are fully dealt with in 

 subsequent lectures most of them will be 

 passed here. 



We may note however, that whenever any 

 nation in the modern world, produces, in the 

 development of its industry, a Socialistic 

 variation, that new feature at once proves its 

 utility and is "selected" in the Darwinian 

 sense, because it constitutes an advantage over 

 the previous form of social organization, in 

 that particular. This is the reason why the 

 trust — which is socialistic and revolutionary 

 in its essential tendences — is always victorious, 

 in spite of the foolish ravings of the Hearst 

 newspapers and the antediluvian twaddle of 

 William Jennings Bryan. 



But Darwin's crowning achievement is that 

 he made the general theory of evolution im- 

 pregnable by thoroughly and conclusively 

 demonstrating it in his own field as a naturalist. 

 From then on it was only a question of time 

 as to when its application would be universal. 



