170 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



obligation to others, the ratio of sickly and feeble- 

 minded children may be diminished. 



With the judicious selection of parents to be the 

 race-producers, we need have no fear as to the care 

 that modern civilisation and preventive medicine 

 bestow upon the individuals. If the community 

 undertakes its own selection we can dispense with 

 the selecting influence of the micro-organism of 

 whooping-cough, scarlet fever, or tubercle. Our 

 remedies and our digested foods may be used with 

 advantage to help the members of a robust and ener- 

 getic stock through those dangers which must at all 

 times beset them. 



