14 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



representatives, a race whose future we can make or 

 mar by the course we now pursue ? 



Evolution. 



The belief in our power to modify not only our 

 own but other races is a partial expression of the 

 great fact called " evolution," accepted now by all who 

 have had time and opportunity to examine the struc- 

 tures of living plants and animals placed side by side 

 with the remains of older forms preserved to us in 

 the earth's crust These structures testify without 

 equivocation to that development of type from type 

 which has gradually led to the present condition of 

 plant and animal life, and which, in view of the 

 changes still observable, we are bound to conclude 

 must still be progressing at the present day. 



Modern Philanthropic Effort. 



But over and above the fact that racial modifica- 

 tions can and do occur, something is known about 

 the method by means of which these modifications 

 are brought about. Knowledge on this point is so 

 definite, that we are justified in its acceptance, and 

 must take it into consideration in all discussions 

 relating to our racial well-being. Viewed from the 

 side-light thus thrown upon our actions, it will 



