INTRODUCTION. 



Darwin wrote "The Origin of Species," and 

 that title represents his contribution to science. 

 While there are several races of men, it is gen- 

 erally considered that there is only one species. 

 As we are not interested in producing a new 

 species of man, or in increasing the number of 

 races of men, the origin of species has only an 

 academic interest for those persons who are 

 looking toward human improvement. 



Man has risen little by little from savagery to 

 civilization, and the things we are here interested 

 in are those characteristics which distinguish the 

 civilized man from the savage. Going a step 

 further, we are interested in producing in the 

 entire human family more of those character- 

 istics which distinguish such men as Newton, 

 Shakespeare and Franklin from their feeble- 

 minded neighbors. As these are not the things 

 by which we distinguish one species from 

 another, it should be evident that the Darwinian 

 theory has nothing to do with the improvement 

 of human beings. 



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