H2 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



Does the Race show Increased Brain Capacity ? 



This competition of individuals in our own com- 

 munity has always been one in which brain power 

 has been pitted against brain power, rather than 

 muscle volume against muscle volume, and it is in- 

 teresting to investigate whether or no, as a result of 

 this struggle, our race has increased its innate intel- 

 lectual capacity during the historic period, and, 

 furthermore, what changes are likely to take place in 

 the future. 



Before we can venture to proceed with this in- 

 vestigation, it is necessary at once to separate from 

 each other the question of our innate intellectual 

 activity, and that of our intellectual property. We, 

 in this nineteenth century, are the inheritors of a vast 

 fund of accumulated knowledge an intellectual pro- 

 perty which is infinitely greater than that possessed 

 by the Greeks at the time of Socrates and Plato, yet 

 I do not think that anyone would venture to assert 

 that an average Englishman of to-day has better brain 

 tissue and corresponding intellectual activity than that 

 which was possessed by an average ancient Greek ; 

 indeed, some with Galton would say that the English- 

 man's brain power is very inferior. We have always to 

 bear in mind that, owing to our possession of the 

 faculty of language spoken and written, our intel- 

 lectual property, like our material property in houses, 



