176 EVOLUTION 



greatest practical controversy of our science, 

 in comparison to which all others have been 

 but academic that ultimately between the 

 Herodian and the Magian view and treat- 

 ment of the child, and between essential 

 renewals of the Caesarist and of the Christian 

 ideals of the community, upon our modern 

 spiral. Yet since this is a modern spiral, we 

 must harmonize this controversy; we must 

 seek the due correlation of the ideals of 

 organic and of psychic selection. For this 

 we need above all some clearer vision of the 

 ideals of evolution Olympian for the body, 

 Parnassian for the spirit, and even more 

 in fact, an evolutionist hope and aim not 

 only for the life of the individual, but in- 

 creasingly for the uplift of the race and of the 

 community. On the way towards this, 

 selective consciousness and conscience are 

 indispensable, love as individual, love as 

 social; and with these sacrifice also, it may 

 be of love or of parenthood itself. Nor is the 

 social control a mere choice between Dra- 

 conian harshness on one hand and shallow 

 philanthropy on the other; for these are but 

 rival cruelties, that to the individual, this to 

 the race. To determine, then, the ideal goal 

 and the true process of selection for our own 

 species, is thus the supreme problem and task 

 which are opening before us as evolutionists. 



