r6 4 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



once the public could see the inveterate criminal and 

 vagrant class by itself, it would be able to deal with 

 it on rational lines. It would view it as a hopelessly 

 inferior class, having no place among the workers of 

 the State ; a class to be cared for and controlled, but 

 whose perpetuation, on the score of pity for the off- 

 spring, must in duty be prevented. 



Segregation no New Idea, and Ultimately a Necessary 

 Practice. 



The idea of segregation is no new one, for at the 

 call of religion man and woman have in most 

 countries, and in all times, separated themselves from 

 their fellows. They have denied themselves the 

 pleasures of love, and of the table ; they have fore- 

 gone worldly ambition, and have lived lives often of 

 utter solitude, and of miserable privation, in order to 

 fulfil what they considered to be a higher duty. 

 Believing in the advent of some sudden change, of 

 the destruction of the present condition of things, 

 they naturally thought and cared little for the pre- 

 servation of a race, destined soon to have spiritual 

 existence alone. Thus, it came about that millions 

 of the most thoughtful and noble-minded men and 

 women have in the past committed the fatal mistake 

 of leaving the rest of humanity to carry on the race. 

 Theirs was a voluntary segregation which must have 



