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protection, and race preservation. Some dull souls are 

 satisfied with mere self-maintenance and strive only for 

 enough to eat and wear. Many business men are over- 

 cautious, stingy, and conservative, fearing for their own 

 protection; others are greedy, unscrupulous, and aggressive 

 in order to be sure to have enough. Our instincts for race 

 preservation offer many problems shall capital criminals 

 be killed or encouraged to live better; shall hopeless idiots 

 and insane persons be killed, sterilized, or allowed to live 

 and breed other defectives? Class feeling not only dis- 

 plays itself today in patriotism, wars, and great struggles 

 for national industrial supremacy, but is apparent in many 

 harmless idiosyncrasies such as cuffs on trousers, starched 

 collars, the length of coat tails, and the trimming of hats. 



In civilized life there must always be adjustment be- 

 tween individual rights and those of society. Economic 

 conditions are keen, and the cities, which are the greatest 

 industrial centers, show the greatest extremes wealth, 

 leisure, and culture contrasting with long hours, poverty, 

 overcrowding, and ignorance. In civilization there must 

 always be cooperation, sacrifice, and delegated authority. 

 Often it seems that justice is obsolete, if individual cases 

 are considered, but on the whole man's civilization grows 

 higher and better. Certain aspects of modern life are 

 highly desirable the free interchange of ideas, the de- 

 pendence of industrial progress on scientific method and 

 discovery, the intellectual opportunities offered to all. 

 But other sides of this life are not so desirable the growing 

 importance of labor-saving machines leads man more and 

 more indoors where he falls prey to the diseases accom- 

 panying sedentary life; abnormal instincts for self-main- 

 tenance lead to the hoarding of vast fortunes which at times 

 menace society; the wisdom of expending lives and resources 

 in warfare is certainly questionable. 



Religious beliefs of some sort have accompanied man's 

 culture since its beginnings in the Stone Age. Many of 

 the great reforms in society have been brought about by 



