1 66 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



The Masses must be Taught the Main Facts of 

 Heredity and Evolution. 



In addition to our attempts to separate the deserv- 

 ing poor from the criminal and vagrant classes, which 

 should be done on the grounds of common decency, 

 every endeavour may with advantage be made to 

 further a clear understanding of the action of selec- 

 tion in general evolution, and in this undertaking we 

 shall have the assistance of the workers in most 

 sciences ; for everywhere the thoughtful man is re- 

 garding the facts in his own department under this 

 new light. 



By pointing out the marked racial change resulting 

 from the action of selection, which shows itself every 

 ten years in the production of some new variety of 

 dog or pigeon, and every year in the production of 

 many varieties of flowering plants, we can convince 

 the uninstructed by ocular demonstration which they 

 cannot deny. They must learn to look upon man- 

 kind as organically related to other animals, and it 

 must be pointed out to them that the facts of human 

 evolution are in the main similar to, and form but a 

 section of, the facts of general evolution. It must be 

 pointed out that in many families there are perhaps 

 one or two of the children, bred under conditions like 

 the rest, who are delicate, of ungovernable temper, or 



