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between men and women that lead to the finest 

 ideals of family life. In other words, the refined 

 sexually based sentiment, which the oriental cannot 

 understand and which he regards with aversion, 

 becomes a subtle but potent influence in securing 

 the freest and best development of the young. It 

 is thus a biological factor in bringing about the 

 highest type of civilization, if we may apply this 

 term to that progress which allows the freest play to 

 the highest intellectual and moral faculties of man. 



II 



A tendency clearly discernible among the nations 

 most advanced in civilization is a growing dissatis- 

 faction with existing economic conditions, which is 

 already showing itself in legislative and executive 

 measures designed to correct some of the most 

 distasteful of these conditions. Among the things 

 that have called forth the most active criticism and 

 hostility is that uneven distribution in the profits of 

 business which has built up fortunes so great as to 

 excite the liveliest interest and even admiration on 

 the part of the disapproving and often semienvious 

 populace. The most conspicuous of these fortunes 

 have arisen in the United States, where favorable 

 natural conditions have given scope for the accu- 

 mulative talents of many men of extraordinary 

 aggressively constructive or executive ability, and it 

 is here that restrictive measures are now being most 



