90 Evolution and Religion 



easily exaggerated. As usual, the golden mean appears 

 to lie between. In the evolutionary ideal of the right 

 use of property, for instance (one of the fundamental 

 bases of all human progress), the theories of a Robert 

 Owen or an Edward Bellamy, who allow the emotional 

 side of their nature to get the upper hand of them, 

 seem to err on the side of undue emotionalism quite as 

 profoundly as the theories of a Ricardo or a John 

 Stuart Mill, who exaggerate the intellectual side of 

 their nature, err on the side of over-intellectualism. 

 Remember that man is complex. One-sided theories 

 will not settle the question. It is a biological problem; 

 and the biological conditions of life, the evolutionary 

 struggle between the two ideas, survival of race and 

 survival of self, appear to be the only thing that can 

 satisfactorily settle it. The middle line of conduct, 

 which shall produce race perfection or the development 

 of the highest type of man, is apparently the only safe 

 line to follow; and that will be found, I think, in giving 

 free play to intelligence tempered by emotion; in other 

 words, to individual self-interest controlled by the 

 ever-growing restraint imposed on the individual 

 through this ideal of an enlarged family affection for 

 the race. 



Law 



There are. those to-day who apparently believe only 

 in salvation by law. This is our modern pet heresy. 

 But law, I think you will find, where it touches the 

 subject of man's conduct, is only man's ideals crystal- 



