64 SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



in which there is no permanent family relation. 

 The regard of parents for their young is a provi- 

 sion of nature for saving the species by saving the 

 recruits of the species. And whether this regard 

 is found in one parent, or in the other, or in both 

 of them, depends on the conditions which sur- 

 round the species and the conditions which have 

 surrounded its ancestors. 



As time passes and society assumes more and 

 more the care of the young, it is probable that 

 the love of parents for their own children will 

 grow weaker. Parents will develop a feeling of 

 regard for children as a whole, and will not have 

 that feeling of partiality which they today have 

 so much for their own children. Society is in 

 many ways better fitted to look after its young 

 than are individual parents. Society today carries 

 on the education of the child, providing school 

 houses, teachers, and in some cr ^es even books and 

 meals. All of these things wert formerly done by 

 parents themselves, that is, in a **privateV' rather 

 than in a * ^ public ^ ' way. And future times will no 

 doubt see still further advances along these same 

 lines. We live in a changing and growing world. 

 If we could come back to the world a thousand 

 years from now, we wouldn't recognize it. There 

 would be new styles, new languages, new nations, 

 new industries, different forms of education, dif- 

 ferent social relations, and different ideas gener- 

 ally. We go along with our heads down assuming 

 that things will go on much as they are now. This 



