i62 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



so great a thing as racial reconstruction can be 

 accomplished on certain well-understood lines, then 

 from what we know of the stuff that is in humanity 

 this racial reconstruction most assuredly will be 

 carried out. 



Social Philosophers and Social Reformers. 



There are two classes of persons Social Philoso- 

 phers and Social Reformers ; the former discuss what 

 might be done, the latter endeavour to bring about 

 that which it is possible to do. Nothing would be 

 easier than to frame a set of suggestions which, when 

 followed out, would lead to the desired ends ; but as 

 reformers (not philosophers) we have only to discuss 

 those suggestions which the public would be pre- 

 pared to view with an open mind and eventually to 

 act upon. It is true that this will take us but one 

 step towards the end, but the futility of discussing 

 further steps, for which people are not prepared, has 

 often enough been demonstrated in matters social. 

 After all we have not to argue these questions in the 

 abstract; they are associated in their very essence 

 with the qualities and nature of the average citizen, 

 and we have to think of what will best appeal to him. 

 He sits as the judge of the case ; he has to be in- 

 structed; his sentiments, and probably his vanity, 



