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change can only be produced in the elements of 

 inborn heredity in the manner in which breeders 

 attempt to produce change in plants and animals 

 and in conditions which we can foresee to be quite 

 impossible in human society in the future. 



With the elements of social heredity everything 

 is different. We can perceive at once, as soon 

 as we grasp the principles of the subject, that it 

 is along this line, namely, through the control of 

 social heredity, that mind will ultimately direct 

 the course of human evolution. For social here- 

 dity resting on mind is the direct basis of Power 

 where Power will be supreme, namely, in its collective 

 expressions. The most revolutionary change can 

 be effected in a brief space of time through control 

 of the elements of social heredity. The cause and 

 agency of variation are here absolutely under the 

 -direction of mind. We can foresee that the control 

 of social heredity will be practicable. And through 

 the control of the elements of social heredity it will 

 be an ideal not impossible of realization to transform 

 the world in the lifetime of a few generations. 



It is now some fifty years since one of the most 



lying it goes further, are full of caution. " That species have 

 come into existence by an evolutionary process no one seriously 

 doubts ; but few who are familiar with the facts that genetic 

 research has revealed are now inclined to speculate as to the 

 manner by which the process has been accomplished " (The 

 Problem of Genetics, by William Bateson, F.R.S.). 



