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fluenced by it. Indeed, as sexual selection has been a 

 large factor in the evolution of animal forms, and as 

 the most vigorous and beautiful males are the ones who 

 display the most artistic variation, it follows that the 

 love of the beautiful is biologically connected with 

 the preservation of the individual, and the race. The 

 female, by accepting the most virile male, as shown by 

 his fine form, gaudy colors, and his triumph over his 

 rivals, thus insures the same qualities in her offspring, 

 and thus produces favorable variations in such off- 

 spring, which being inherited from generation to gen- 

 eration, builds up a race of increasing strength. These 

 variations, also, tend all the time, to the slow produc- 

 tion of new species. 



ETHICS. The same truths follow from the facts of 

 ethics, or altruism. The struggles and the sacrifices 

 made by the males ,in winning the females are more 

 than equalled in the female care of the offspring. 

 Fatherhood and Motherhood, in nearly all animal life, 

 are full of illustrations of the great principle that all 

 function, from the lowest to the highest, is based upon 

 the preservation of the individual, or the race. Even 

 the lowest vegetable takes special care of the seeds for 

 its future propagation, by placing them in the most 

 protected places in the fruit, and elsewhere, provides 

 them with the means of suitable sustenance, and 

 sufficient, for their maintenance, during their most 

 helpless period. In other words, not only is the organic 

 form as a physical unit, the result of biological evo- 

 lution, but thought, reason, memory, aesthetics, ethics. 

 and altruism, have the same basis. In the present form 

 of civilized society, with the family as a unit, living in 

 homes, the more beautiful and attractive those homes 

 are made, so much are they adapted to prolong the 

 lives of the individuals, and perpetuate the race. 



