XX ANALYTICAL CONTENTS 



V. Can natural selection apply to men? Biologically Struggle with 



beasts is over Famine (A) is rare, and of doubtful tendency 

 Pestilence (C) does harm Vice (B) Crime (B) War (selects 

 the wrong way) Religious celibacy (z^.) Summary Socio- 

 logically Mr. Kidd's insistence on struggle is really biological; 

 is unproved; is not an insistence on natural selection Ethically 



Mr. Alexander's competition of "Ideals" is exaggerated And 

 itself implies reason and sympathy Mr. Sutherland's elimination 

 of evil doers ignores positive causes of moral progress Exempli- 

 fied typically in Jesus Christ 



VI. If natural selection does not operate where reason and conscience 

 exist, it yet may originate them in the loose and incorrect sense in 

 which natural selection is said to originate things ! If reason, 

 etc., were, as most suppose, evolved and selected How selected? 



Have adjacent races died out ? 



VII. Other idealist views Professor Ritchie praises natural selection 

 more fully, in vague terms and in some passages Mr. Sandeman 

 rejects it, because he believes in the teleological perfection of 

 every organism But is it possible to get over the impression 

 produced by rudimentary organs? It is enough if the whole of 

 nature is good, and its parts relatively Jit Dr. Stirling believes 

 the casual variation which makes an individual can never make a 

 type Is it certain that every individual is born differentiated? 

 Or that any differences are incapable of growing by cumulation 

 into a type ? Possible value of the hypothesis of natural selec- 

 tion, even if a fiction 



